Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Smell (scent).
Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing essentially from that of objects addressing the touch, the taste, the sight or the hearing.
Edgar Allan Poe, Marginalia (184
Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.
Robert Byrne, 1,911 Best Things
Aromatic plants bestowno spicy fragrance while they grow;but crush'd or trodden to the ground,diffuse their balmy sweets around.
Oliver Goldsmith
A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless.
W. H. Auden
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.
Diane Ackerman, A Natural Histor
The rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril.
William Shakespeare
Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment.
Heywood Hale Broun
