Famous quotes containing the word smells:
“The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)
“He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth; he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger- print of reality upon the beautiful.”
—Nadine Gordimer (b. 1923)