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Quotes About Fragrant

We had the same sensitivity to beautiful things, the same need to enjoy them, the same need to search for the right words to say how sweet the night was, how magical the moon, how the sea sparkled, how two souls were able to meet and recognize each other in the darkness, in the fragrant air.
~ Elena Ferrante
If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Is it a dream? The day is done, The long, warm, fragrant summer day; Afar beyond the hills, the sun In purple splendor sinks away.
~ ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN
Hot breath surrounded her, fragrant of summer. The voice was tolerant and amused, maternal in its enormity
~ Elizabeth Bear
Døra ble åpnet av en kvinne med unnselig utseende, og hun så litt forbauset ut da hun fikk se sin mann og en fremmed stå der med armene fulle av duftende planter. – Helvi, disse plantene tilhører denne mannen, og vi skal ha dem i klesskapet inntil han trenger dem.
~ Arto Paasilinna
Dante compares this language—which is like yours, when you come back to me intangibly—to the "perfumed panther," the mythical animal of medieval bestiaries. He adds, and I quote for all three of you: "Hearing the call of the panther, the other animals follow it wherever it goes, attracted by so much fragrant softness.
~ Assia Djebar
Out in the lonely woods the jasmine burns Its fragrant lamps, and turns Into a royal court with green festoons The banks of dark lagoons.
~ Henry Timrod
If Death Is Kind Perhaps if Death is kind, and there can be returning, We will come back to earth some fragrant night, And take these lanes to find the sea, and bending Breathe the same honeysuckle, low and white. We will come down at night to these resounding beaches And the long gentle thunder of the sea, Here for a single hour in the wide starlight We shall be happy, for the dead are free.
~ Sara Teasdale
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul; and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant. While its opponent, ingratitude, is a deadly weed; not only poisonous in itself but impregnating the very atmosphere in which it grows, with fetid vapors.
~ ballou hosea ii
What a benediction is this fragrance of the early morning! The vernal grass fills the whole atmosphere as with a shower of sweetness.
~ Sarah Smiley
Nothing helps scenery like ham and eggs. Ham and eggs, and after these a pipe - an old, rank, delicious pipe - ham and eggs and scenery, a down grade, a flying coach, a fragrant pipe and and a contented heart - these make happiness. It is what all the ages have struggled for.
~ Mark Twain
Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Upon your shattered ruins where, This vine will flourish still, as rare, As fresh, as fragrant as of old. Love will not crumble.
~ Eleanor Farjeon
Guavas are fragrant, delicious tropical fruits that many Americans know only because they're frequently used in jellies. But these red-fleshed (and sometimes white-fleshed) fruits pack an amazing nutritional wallop. New
~ Jonny Bowden
I'm sure the makers of Downy would be pleased to know that their product makes even mummified human skin soft and fragrant.
~ Bill Bass
Some of them stole off to those cryptical realms which are known only to cats and which villagers say are on the moon's dark side, whither the cats leap from tall housetops; but one small black kitten crept upstairs and sprang in Carter's lap to purr and play, and curled up near his feet when he lay down at last on the little couch whose pillows were stuffed with fragrant drowsy herbs.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Stanford University is so startlingly paradisial, so fragrant and sunny, it's as if you could eat from the trees and live happily forever.
~ Ken Auletta
Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.
~ Sir Francis Bacon
Sharpe is the epitome of a nineteenth-century, romantic working-class hero. Cool, flash and fragrant … Escape and enjoy' Daily Express
~ Bernard Cornwell
The flavor the came to me was a luscious Sincerest peach that I once had in California. This heirloom variety needed time to ripen on the tree to achieve its peak flavor. Unlike other peaches that were picked unripe so they would ship more easily, Sincerest peaches had to be eaten right away. But they were worth it- fragrant, luscious, juice-dripping-down-your-chin perfection.
~ Judith Fertig
I must soon enter this world, where on its surface fragrant ladies rocked slowly, fanned gently, and drank cool water.
~ Harper Lee
In the height of summer, a ripe cantaloupe is one of the most intoxicating pieces of produce under the sun.
~ Claire Saffitz
The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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~ Herbie Brennan