Odour Quotes

Books for the masses are always bad-smelling books: the odour of little people cling to them. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Some flowers give out little or no odour until crushed. — Abby May Alcott

A complicit mustiness hung in the air, the odour of silence and calm. — Umberto Eco

I know that if odour were visible, as colour is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds. — Robert Bridges

There's not much room left in a cabriolet after you've factored in two hoods, the armoury, a suitcase, the victim and the body odour — C.S. Boag

Faeces by any other name would smell as gross — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We know by the odour that occasionally we are visited by skunks, which are not poetic but very beautiful. — Gene Stratton-Porter

The Troll was well over seven feet tall, and smelled of body odour and Germolene. — Andrew Barrett

It could be argued that all perfume is born out of shame; a self-consciousness of our natural odour. — Kathleen Tessaro

The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem
For that sweet odour which doth in it live. — William Shakespeare

An unpleasant odour would not be objected to, it is not objected to now in many continental hotels. — H.G.Wells

Ambition is the intellectual equivalent of body odour. — Jerry Toner

And the violet lay dead while the odour flew On the wings of the wind o'er the waters blue. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley