Quotes About Smell

Smell and taste are in fact but a single composite sense, whose laboratory is the mouth and its chimney the nose.

The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.

As for the garden of mint, the very smell of it alone recovers and refreshes our spirits, as the taste stirs up our appetite for meat.

Thy breath is like the steame of apple-pyes.

Mine eyes smell onions: I shall weep anon.

Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is.

If Leekes you like, but do their smell dis-like, Eat Onyons, and you shall not smell the Leeke; If you of Onyons would the scent expell, Eat Garlicke, that shall drowne the Onyons' smell.

The smell of baking bread wafts up to my cell and reminds me of the days I walked freely in the cafes. This tears me apart more than my fear of death or the solitude in which I now find myself.

The place stank like someone had butchered a rotting cow in a Porta Potti. The

As for the shop there is a breed of Homo sapiens that will walk inside, take a deep breath, and say, 'Mmm, I just love the smell of old books.' They are to be got rid of as quickly as possible, with whatever violence it takes. I have heard the line a thousand times and never, never have I sold a book to any one of those people.

It was morning. Sunlight filtered in with the smell of burnt toast.

Um . . . guys? If I, say, noticed a crack in a wall in a tunnel and a cold, creepy draft came out of it and it smelled like three-day-old lasagna, would you, um, want to know about that?" Murdock and I exchanged glances. "You invited him," I said. "Show us the crack, Joe," Murdock said. Joe turned around and lowered his loincloth.

Don't get too close, mis amigos. Two reasons: I haven't completely broken 'em in yet. And they smell worse than camel butt.

When these early settlers hunted, they would leave red herring along their trail because the strong smell would confuse wolves, which is the origin of the expression red herring, meaning "a false trail.

That's the only dog I know who can smell someone just thinking about food.

Whenever I investigate a smell, I find that the answer is always bad. It's never: 'What is that? *sniff* muffins!'

I don't believe pumpkin pie is even made from pumpkin. I mean, how can something that smells that shitty make a pie so sweet? There's not enough sugar in the universe.

I just finished running, and I look and smell like nothing very pleasant. Why, oh, why did he have to bump into me now?

There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

A bad smell, like a good one, can follow you into tomorrow.

The eerie, still, darkness was flickered and slivered by small receding flames, and was wrapped in the brown smell of burned beans and tobacco smoke and human sweat, and Kit had the sense that he was somehow simply a spectator to another side of reality – observing, listening.

mattered; he stank up the cabin just by walking inside. "You've brought

Baby dodos smell just like chickens.