Smell

Famous quotes containing the word smell:

“Mildred Pierce: You look down on me because I work for a living, don’t you? You always have. All right, I work. I cook food and sell it and make a profit on it, which, I might point out, you’re not too proud to share with me.
Monte Beragon: Yes, I take money from you, Mildred. But not enough to make me like kitchens or cooks. They smell of grease.
Mildred Pierce: I don’t notice you shrinking away from a fifty- dollar bill because it smells of grease.”
—Ranald MacDougall (1915–1973)

“Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other
Who think the same thoughts without need of speech”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

“Here’s the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)