Scent

Famous quotes containing the word scent:

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

    “I am ... willing to admit that some people might live there for years, or even a lifetime, so protected that they never sense the sweet stench of corruption that is all around them—the keen, thin scent of decay that pervades everything and accuses with a terrible accusation the superficial youthfulness, the abounding undergraduate noise, that fills those ancient buildings.”
    —Thomas Merton (1915–1968)

    “But soft, methinks I scent the morning air,
    Brief let me be.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)