Quotes about smells

A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless.

— W. H. Auden

The rankest compound of villainous smell that ever offended nostril.

— William Shakespeare

The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette