odour quotes

L'odeur du vin, o"   combien plus est friand, riant, priant, plus ce  leste et de  licieux que d'huile! The odour of wine, oh how much sweeter, more cheerful, pleasing, heavenlyand delicious it is than oil!

- Fran c° ois Rabelais
  Gargantua, Prologue de l'auteur.

The vanity of translation; it were as wise to cast a violet into a crucible that you might discover the formal principle of its colour and odour, as seek to transfuse from one language to another the creations of a poet. 786 The plant must spring again from its seed, or it will bear no flower.

- Percy Bysshe Shelley
A Defence of Poetry.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

- Henry David Thoreau
  Walden, or Life in theWoods,'Economy'.

   The odour of sanctity was clearly discernible from his breath and person.

- Mervyn Wall
  The Unfortunate Fursey.