Perfume Quotes

Beware of flattery! 'tis a flowery weed, Which oft offends the very idol-vice, Whose shrine it would perfume.

Are you trying to grasp the quality of intelligence, compassion, the immense sense of beauty, the perfume of love and that truth which has no path to it?

Death is the opening of a more subtle life. In the flower, it sets free the perfume; in the chrysalis, the butterfly; in man, the soul.

Fragrance, whether strong or delicate, is a highly subjective matter, and one gardener's perfume is another gardener's stink.

I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.

To smell, though well, is to stink.

When I was a child, our summer days were spent swimming; chlorine in my hair was like perfume to me.

It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt.

Many perfumes promise to lure men to women. None of them smell of motherhood. None of them proclaim the wearer to be tidy, thrifty, and sensible.

If you prefer smoke over fire then get up now and leave. For I do not intend to perfume your mind's clothing with more sooty knowledge.

People are very narcissistic. It's not all their fault. We live in a society where there is a magazine for you, a channel for you, a perfume for you.

Perfume acts as an anesthetic. By the time she floats a little your way, you'll promise her anything.

When I started to work on perfume, I could not reduce the idea of a woman to one smell.

Perfume is pretty good because nobody has to hold the product by their face or use it.

I only used my whole life one perfume, and it's Cartier's Les Must.

I've been offered a lot of things that celebrities do that I wouldn't do, like perfumes, lines of clothing and this, that and the other.

A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up in the air.

I have to keep Dune perfume in my dressing room, because I always wear it, but I must never put it on in case it makes me choke.

History could hover, like a faint perfume or a memory stamped on the back of one's eyelids.

Prosperity is like perfume, it often makes the head ache.

You wouldn't be caught wearing cheap perfume, would you? Then why do you want to wear cheap perfume in your conduct?

There are no women who do not like perfume, there are women who have not found their scent.

I'm very intelligent. I'm capable of doing everything put to me. I've launched a perfume and want my own hotel chain. I'm living proof blondes are not stupid.

I try to catch at many a tuneLike petals of light fallen from the moon,Broken and bright on a dark lagoon,But they float away - for who can holdYouth, or perfume or the moon's gold?

Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume.

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

But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.

and there grows in the mind a scent, it may be, of locust blossoms whose perfume is itself a wind moving to lead the mind away.

'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.

Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.

"Where should I apply Perfume?" a young lady asked. "Where you want to be kissed."

Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse one.

On Mother's Day: It's just a rip-off, to tell the truth, a chance to sell my perfume and other things that ladies like.

Poems . . . are perfume bottles momentarily unstopped - what they release is volatile and will vanish, and yet it can be released again.

I detest heavy perfume and shrill voices.

I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.

My soul travels on the smell of perfume like the souls of other men on music.

Christ was born in a manger, laying down amongst donkeys ang goats. He was given gifts of incense and perfume. No kidding.

Sweet praise is like perfume. It is fine if you don't swallow it.

Charm is to a woman what perfume is to a flower.

Because each book has its own special perfume.

I emitted some civetlike female stink, a distinct perfume of sexual wanting, that he had followed to find me here in the dark.

I like chocolate. I don’t eat it, but I like the smell of it. People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose. I would love to have a perfume based on chocolate.

I sucked in the smell of her perfume, Viva La Juicy, and was swept away. La Juicy was part of my oxygen supply, even for the year and a half we were apart.

Let us then blend everything: love, religion, genius, with sunshine, perfume, music, and poetry.

Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift.

I hope my music sets up the platform for me to be able to do lots of things - to have a cowboy-boot line, maybe, or do a perfume or makeup deal.

[Wellesley College] is about as meaningful to the educational process in America as a perfume factory is to the national economy.

Charlotte Corday walked alone Paris birds sang sugar calls Charlotte walked down lanes of stone through the haze of perfume stalls Charlotte smelt the dead's gangrene Heard the singing guillotine

I'm looking for a perfume to overpower men - I'm sick of karate.