Quotes About Scentless

She had not the strength to come to life now, in England, so foreign, skies so hostile. She knew she would die like an early, colourless, scentless flower that the end of the winter puts forth mercilessly. And she wanted to harbour her modicum of twinkling life.

Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the rose, with sweets in every fold.