Quotes About Dampness

That after an hour's silence he can say, The one thing I cannot stand is dampness... That's all, it took him an hour to work that out.

The humidity pressed in from all sides like solid walls of water.

I hate unsolicited wetness.

The first room exhales an odor for which there is no name in the language, and which should be called the odeur de pension. The damp atmosphere sends a chill through you as you breathe it; it has a stuffy, musty, and rancid quality; it permeates your clothing; after-dinner scents seem to be mingled in it with smells from the kitchen and scullery and the reek of a hospital.

There must be something ghostly in the air of Christmas — something about the close, muggy atmosphere that draws up the ghosts, like the dampness of the summer rains brings out the frogs and snails.

Here under St. Michael's Tower sat these three figures, the lean shabby-genteel John, the hulking weather-bleached Sam, the black-coated Mr. Evans—all atheists towards the life-giving Sun-God, and all expanding now, in their thoughts, their feelings, their secretest hopes, because of the victory of vapour over light and of dampness over heat!

I guess the difference is that dampness comes down but dankness rises up out of rot and fermentation.

80 percent humidity,

I cannot tell you how grateful I am - I am filled with humidity.

Otto: A bonny country, Scotland, if all I've heard is correct, what with the banshees wailing and the four- leaved shamrock. Gilda: That's Ireland, dear. Otto: Never mind. The same wistful dampness distinguishes them both.