Quotes with perfume

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  • Bret Harte And ever since then, when the clock strikes two, She walks unbidden from room to room, And the air is filled that she passes through With a subtle, sad perfume. The delicate odor of mignonette, The ghost of a dead and gone bouquet, Is all that tells of her story — yet Could she think of a sweeter way?
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Arthur Symons As perfume doth remain In the folds where it hath lain, So the thought of you, remaining Deeply folded in my brain, Will not leave me: all things leave me: You remain.
    Arthur Symons
     
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  • William Somerset Maugham Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Arthur Miller Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • David Leavitt Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.
    Source: The Stories of David Leavitt (2013) 4
    David Leavitt
    American novelist and biographer (1961 - )
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  • Socrates Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Beth Ditto Granny Ditto always referred to perfume as 'smell good' and for me it's an essential. I have a sweetheart who's extremely allergic to most scents, so I have to be extra careful - as well as creative - in the smell department. The key, I've found, are essential oils, which come in all kinds of 100% natural scents.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Carlos Fuentes If the Soviet Union can give up the Brezhnev Doctrine for the Sinatra Doctrine, the United States can give up the James Monroe Doctrine for the Marilyn Monroe Doctrine: Let's all go to bed wearing the perfume we like best.
    Source: Doing It Our Way, New Statesman & Society, 2 February 1990, tr. Alfred MacAdam
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Dhammapada Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.
    Dhammapada
    collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form
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  • Bethany Mota My viewers actually know about my little routine for spraying perfume. I put it on my wrists and rub them together, then I spray a little bit on my neck and three spritzes in front of me and then I shimmy through them.
    Bethany Mota
    American video blogger (1995 - )
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  • Bee Wilson One thing I always make - and I'm sure this is partly to do with memory and yearning and because I've made it ever since my children were born - I make gingerbread every year. And it's partly just the perfume of the spices in the house, makes it smell like winter to me.
    Bee Wilson
    British food writer, journalist and historian
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  • C.M. Schwab Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.
    C.M. Schwab
     
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  • Calvin Trillin The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Bethany Mota When you're going back to school, you want something fresh and new, and perfume is the best way to do that.
    Bethany Mota
    American video blogger (1995 - )
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