{"id":4728,"date":"2016-09-13T03:59:17","date_gmt":"2016-09-13T10:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/?p=4728"},"modified":"2017-04-27T07:49:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-27T14:49:23","slug":"eight-smelly-quotes-from-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.litquotes.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/eight-smelly-quotes-from-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight “Smelly” Quotes from Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Quotes“I love to smell flowers in the dark,” she said. “You get hold of their soul then.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Anne’s House of Dreams<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Lucy Maud Montgomery<\/a><\/p>\n

It smells like the left wing of the day of judgment.<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Moby Dick<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Herman Melville<\/a><\/p>\n

The mutable, rank-scented many . . .<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Coriolanus<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0William Shakespeare<\/a><\/p>\n

“I wish we could see perfumes as well as smell them. I’m sure they would be very beautiful.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Anne of the Island<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Lucy Maud Montgomery<\/a><\/p>\n

“The rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Merry Wives of Windsor<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0William Shakespeare<\/a><\/p>\n

“Don’t you love heavy fragrances, faint with sweetness, ravishing juices of odor, heliotropes, violets, water-lilies,–powerful attars and extracts that snatch your soul off your lips?”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Amber Gods<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Harriet Prescott Spofford<\/a><\/p>\n

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose
\nBy any other name would smell as sweet.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0Romeo and Juliet<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0William Shakespeare<\/a><\/p>\n

“Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers, our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it. It is only goodness which gives extras, and so I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.”<\/b>\u00a0~\u00a0The Naval Treaty<\/a><\/i>\u00a0by\u00a0Sir Arthur Conan Doyle<\/a><\/p>\n

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It smells like the left wing of the day of judgment. ~ Moby Dick by Herman Melville AND 7 other “smelly” quotes from literature.<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[947],"tags":[487,763,917,478,100,419,99,375,826,477,1131,878,936,142],"class_list":["post-4728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quote-topics","tag-anne-of-the-island","tag-annes-house-of-dreams","tag-coriolanus","tag-harriet-prescott-spofford","tag-herman-melville","tag-lucy-maud-montgomery","tag-moby-dick","tag-romeo-and-juliet","tag-sir-arthur-conan-doyle","tag-the-amber-gods","tag-the-merry-wives-of-windsor","tag-the-naval-treaty","tag-topic1","tag-william-shakespeare"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t