fragrance quotes

  Remembering Mary Archer in the witness box.Your vision of her probably will never disappear. Has she elegance? Has she fragrance? Would she have, without the strain of this trial, radiance?

- Sir Bernard Caulfield
Summing up in1987 libel trial in which  Jeffrey Archer contested a newspaper's claim that he had sex with a prostitute. Quoted in Michael Crick Jeffrey  Archer: Stranger than Fiction (1996).

At the same moment a peculiar fragrance was borne upon the breeze, as if a passing fairy had hiccuped, and had previously been to a wine vaults.

- CharlesJohn Huffam Dickens
^4  On Mrs Gamp's entering a room. Martin Chuzzlewit, ch.25.

Isles of fragrance, lily-silver'd values.

- Alexander Pope
  The Dunciad, bk.4, l.303.

The growth of a large business is merelya survival of the fittest† The American Beauty rose can be produced in the splendor and fragrance which bring cheer to its beholder only by sacrificing the early buds which grow up around it. 692

-John D(avison) Rockefeller
Quoted inW J Ghent Our Benevolent Feudalism (1902).

With many women I doubt whether there be any more effectual wayof touching their hearts than ill-using them and then confessing it. If you wish to get the sweetest fragrance from the herb at your feet, tread on it and bruise it.

- Anthony Trollope
  Miss Mackenzie, ch.10.