Perfume Quotes - Page 17

• Use your eyes as if tomorrow you would be stricken blind. Hear the music of voices, the song of birds, the mighty strains of an orchestra as if you would be stricken deaf tomorrow . . . Smell the perfume of flowers, taste with relish each morsel as if tomorrow you could never smell and taste again. Glory in all the facts of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you.

  Helen Keller

  Song, Flower, Eye

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.11, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Well, I always tried to look nice and be feminine even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there's no reason to add to everyone's misery by looking miserable yourself. That's my philosophy. This is why I always wore makeup and jewelry into the jungle-nothing too extravagant, but maybe just a nice gold bracelet and some earrings, a little lipstick, good perfume. Just enough to show that I still had my self-respect.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Philosophy, Nice, Makeup

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2007). “Eat Pray Love 10th-Anniversary Edition: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia”, p.292, Penguin

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• And, in addition to all the miseries, the young are not wise. They have very little understanding about life. Who wants to live every day when you don't know what's going on? When people are manipulating you, telling you to buy this perfume and you'll be beautiful, or this pair of jeans and you'll be sexy-and you believe them! It's such nonsense.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Beautiful, Wise, Sexy

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• Words can be applied as one might put on a scent, such as perfume. Some scents are so wonderful and others are sickening... titles can be the same.

  Jim Hodges

  Titles, Scent, Might

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• America is subsidizing what is left of the prestige and strength of the once mighty Britain. The sun has set forever on that monocled, pith-helmeted resident colonialist, sipping tea with his delicate lady in the non-white colonies being systematically robbed of every valuable resource. Britain's superfluous royalty and nobility now exist by charging tourists to inspect the once baronial castles, and by selling memoirs, perfumes, autographs, titles, and even themselves.

  Malcolm X

  White, America, Forever

  Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.292, Ballantine Books

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• Anytime the perfume of orange and lemon groves wafts in the window; the human body has to feel suffused with a languorous well-being.

  Frances Mayes

  Orange, Fruit, Body

  Frances Mayes (1999). “Bella Tuscany: The Sweet Life in Italy”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Let me tell you, you either have chemistry or you don't, and you better have it, or it's like kissing some relative. But chemistry, listen to me, you got to be careful. Chemistry is like those perfume ads, the ones that look so interesting and mysterious but you dont even know at first what they're even selling. Or those menues without the prices. Mystery and intrigue are gonna cost you. Great looking might mean something ve-ry expensive, and I don't mean money. What I'm saying is, chemistry is a place to start, not an end point.

  Deb Caletti

  Mean, Kissing, Interesting

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Secret Life of Prince Charming”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• I will drop into your chest like a vegetal ambrosia. I will be the grain that regenerates the cruelly plowed furrow. Poetry will be born of our intimate union. A god we shall create together, and we shall soar heavenward like sunbeams, perfumes, butterflies, birds, and all winged things.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Butterfly, Bird, Together

  Charles Baudelaire (1996). “Artificial Paradises”, Citadel Press

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• And now everything has changed once again. The air of the Close each evening is full of bird song - I've never really noticed it before. Full of birdsong and summer perfumes, full of strange glimpses and intimations just out of the corner of my eye, of longings and sadness and undefined hopes.It has a name, this sweet disturbance. Its name is Lamorna.

  Michael Frayn

  Summer, Song, Sweet

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• There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth; to convey one's temperament into another as though it were a subtle fluid or a strange perfume: there was a real joy in that - perhaps the most satisfying joy left to us in an age so limited and vulgar as our own, an age grossly carnal in its pleasures, and grossly common in its aims.

  Oscar Wilde

  Real, Passion, Exercise

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.36, GENERAL PRESS

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• And in some perfumes there is more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound.

  William Shakespeare

  Loss, Mistress, Sound

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 130.

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• The lover's pleasure, like that of the hunter, is in the chase, and the brightest beauty loses half its merit, as the flower its perfume, when the willing hand can reach it too easily. There must be doubt; there must be difficulty and danger.

  Walter Scott

  Love, Flower, Hands

  Sir Walter Scott (1871). “Waverley Novels”, p.352

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• I am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended between hope for nothing and despair of everything, brought up among perfumes and poisons, consumed with love and hatred, killed by lights and shadows. My symbol is death of light and the flame of death. Sparks die in me only to be reborn as thunder and lightning. Darkness itself glows in me.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Light, Flames, Hatred

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• IF THE TRUE MEASURE OF A BOOK is to be found in the perfume that remains behind when all the words have been forgotten then, for Beyond Recovery, it is this quality of honesty, openness and surrender which communicates itself in the words and between them, administering not just to the mind but to the background of Awareness.

  Rupert Spira

  Honesty, Book, Recovery

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• You don't have to be a genius to recognize one. If you did, Einstein would never have gotten invited to the White House.

  Tom Robbins

  White, House, Genius

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.70, Bantam

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• Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the other, mechanical and slick. A zipper is where the Industrial Revolution meets the Cobra Cult.

  Tom Robbins

  Hands, Zippers, Revolution

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.299, Bantam

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• She needed help, but God was in a meeting whenever she rang.

  Tom Robbins

  God, Humorous, Phones

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.140, Bantam

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• Unhappiness is the ultimate form of self-indulgence.

  Tom Robbins

  Self, Unhappy Person, Unhappiness

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.261, Bantam

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• I journey to the east, where I have been told, there are men who have taught death some manners.

  Tom Robbins

  Journey, Men, East

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.62, Bantam

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• Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will. The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off, it enters into us like breath into our lungs, it fills us up, imbues us totally. There is no remedy for it.

  Patrick Süskind

  Stronger, Odor, Scent

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• The Middle Ages hangs over history's belt like a beer belly. It is too late now for aerobic dancing or cottage cheese lunches to reduce the Middle Ages. History will have to wear size 48 shorts forever.

  Tom Robbins

  Beer, Lunch, Dancing

  "Jitterbug Perfume". Book by Tom Robbins, 1984.

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• Birth and death were easy. It was life that was hard.

  Tom Robbins

  Funny, Life, Birth

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Jitterbug Perfume”, p.33, Bantam

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• A sense of humor...is superior to any religion so far devised.

  Tom Robbins

  Sense Of Humor, Still Life With Woodpecker, Superiors

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• You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

  Ray Bradbury

  Crazy, Book, Writing

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