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Quotes About Whiff

This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.
~ William Butler Yeats
Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Now there was left with him, at least, a philosophic acquiescence to the existing order—only a desire to be permitted to exist, with now and then a little whiff of genuine life, such as he was breathing now.
~ Kate Chopin
Apart from God every activity is merely a passing whiff of insignificance.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
This melancholy London -- I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.
~ yeats william butler iii
I learned later that the former operator of Abdullah had been a dwarf who cannot have been fastidious about his person, and there was a strong whiff of hot dwarf as I grew hotter myself.
~ Robertson Davies
There are few blessings without a curse hidden inside, nor curses without a whiff of blessing.
~ Joe Abercrombie
The air was full of spices... A Little Princess
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett
And what if ever on some distant day a memory comes to you of an old familiar whiff or the sound of dogs barking far off or a driving hailstorm at dawn and you suddenly fail to grasp what it is you have done, what madness might have possessed you, what devil lured you from your home to the end of the world?
~ Amos Oz
an odor of June mud, backwashed with essence of meadow-grass and a whiff of cow.
~ Gregory Maguire
It had this amazing spicy, pee-y smell.
~ Melvin Burgess
It was one of those temporary situations with a whiff of forever about it.
~ T.R. Pearson
She smelled like herself, like the wind through a tree.
~ Junot Diaz
I just love good smells.
~ Goldie Hawn
Blowing,Blowing The gray slabs Will lose you the winds will flick you away In a whiff
~ Carl Sandburg
Will no man ever do something without a why, just like that, for the hell of it?
~ Anthony Quinn
Browsing the dim back corner Of a musty antique shop An old book of poetry fell open Gold-gilded dust filled the air Angels flew out from the pages I caught the whiff of a soul The ink seemed fresh as today Was that voices whispering? The tree of the paper still grows.
~ Terri Guillemets
Dupa powinna pachnie? dup?, a nie wod? kolo?sk?.
~ Guillaume Apollinaire
I have never been able to use that soap since. Scents are too evocative and the merest whiff jerks me back to that first night away from my wife, and to the feeling I had then.
~ James Herriot
that palpable odor pumped out through the
~ James Patterson
Givenchy Dahlia Noir perfume that wafted toward me.
~ James Patterson
The last thing I want is a conflict of interest between my family's businesses and state government. Even the slightest whiff of a conflict won't fly with me.
~ Jim Justice
Caddy smelled like trees.
~ William Faulkner
As when a window is opened a whiff of fresh air from the fields enters a stuffy room, so a whiff of youthfulness, energy, and confidence of success reached Kutuzov's cheerless staff with the galloping advent of all these brilliant young men.
~ Leo Tolstoy