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Quotes About Odor

READY FOR A BATH?" Am I ever. Now that my sense of smell had returned, I'm pretty aware of my own body odor. This vegetable is getting ripe. Despite
~ Stephanie Bond
The word 'religion' has acquired a very bad name among those who really love truth, justice, charity. It also exhales the musty odor of sanctimony and falsehood.
~ Luther Burbank
His coat] emitted an odor of bus station so desolate that just standing next to him you could feel your luck changing for the worse.
~ Michael Chabon
The smell by now was indescribable, a compound of burnt aging automobile stinks and the natural odors of death and blood—sweet as garbage, acrid as gasoline, the smell of a thousand rubber tires rolled in batshit and then set on fire.
~ Michael Chabon
he stank more than any human joe had ever smelled, as if he had been dipped in some ungodly confection of camembert and rancid gasoline brewed up in a spit-filled cuspidor.
~ Michael Chabon
The rag is sloshed in solvent with a psychotropic odor
~ Michael Chabon
aire olía a gasolina. Mendenhall llegó junto a
~ Michael Connelly
A French poet famously referred to the aroma of certain cheeses as the 'pieds de Dieu'—the feet of god. Just to be clear: foot odor of a particularly exalted quality, but still—foot odor.
~ Michael Pollan
Jesus, I smell like Jeffrey Dahmer's refrigerator.
~ Bill Bryson
The rooms were small and airless and cramped. To make matters worse, somebody in our group was making the most dreadful silent farts. Fortunately, it was me, so I wasn't nearly as bothered as the others.
~ Bill Bryson
The sweaty cotton gave off a sour but friendly smell.
~ Sylvia Plath
She had an interesting, slightly sweaty smell
~ Sylvia Plath
Kill One, Skip One The beer garden was crowded with people in rumpled sport shirts and slacks and cool cotton dresses. It was hot, smoky, wet and rank with the odor of beer, turgidly alive with sluggish conversation and the rasping of a juke box. I bought a beer at the bar and asked if Baxter Osgood was around.
~ Talmage Powell
What's that smell in this room? Didn't you notice it, Brick? Didn't you notice a powerful and obnoxious odor of mendacity in this room? There ain't nothin' more powerful than the odor of mendacity. You can smell it. It smells like death. —Big Daddy
~ Tennessee Williams
Virtue is like precious odors—most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
~ Francis Bacon
maridos y la basura deben de salir de casa antes de las once de la mañana, porque si lo hacen más tarde, la casa apesta.
~ Francisco Martín Moreno
Lo repugnante puede resultar atractivo a veces. Aterrador, amenazante, pero también tentador. Como cuando nos acercamos a algo que huele mal, pero no podemos dejar de aspirar el hedor.
~ Henning Mankell
There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.
~ Henry David Thoreau
In the night the eyes are partly closed, or retire into the head. Other senses take the lead. The walker is guided as well by the sense of smell. Every plant and field and forest emits its odor now, —swamp-pink in the meadow, and tansy in the road; and there is the peculiar dry scent of corn which has begun to show its tassels. The senses both of hearing and smelling are more alert. We hear the tinkling of rills which we never detected before.
~ Henry David Thoreau
He was holding his breath so as not to inhale the odor of democracy.
~ Henry James
There was an odor about him which I could not help but be aware of. It was a mélange of bay rum, wet ashes and tabac gris , tinctured with a dash of some elusive, elegant perfume. Later these would resolve themselves into one unmistakable scent—the aroma of death.
~ Henry Miller
Sometimes when you get in a fight with a skunk, you can't tell who started it.
~ Lloyd Doggett
I don't like those artificial air fresheners. They just smell so fake. It's too much.
~ Alexander Skarsgard
Did you know babies are nauseated by the smell of a clean shirt?
~ Jeff Foxworthy