Scent

Famous quotes containing the word scent:

“The fairest things have fleetest end,
Their scent survives their close:
But the rose’s scent is bitterness
To him that loved the rose.”
—Francis Thompson (1859–1907)

“The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!”
—François Rabelais (1494–1553)

“Chopin—Two embalmers at work upon a minor poet ... the scent of tuberoses ... Autumn rain.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)