David Leavitt quote

Previous quote
Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.
David Leavitt
David Leavitt
Born: Jun 23, 1961

Topics

Perfume, Smells, Childhood

Links

Cite this page: Citation

Related Authors

Elie Wiesel, Ernest Hemingway, H. P. Lovecraft, James Baldwin, John Updike, Leo Rosten, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Richard Bach
Shelter in Place
Shelter in Place
on Amazon
Buy now

Quotes To Explore

I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives. Ann Voskamp
Life God Good Nature Rain Good Things Song World My Life Thanks Pain Stars Nights Wild Neglect Summer Tell Run Wound Rise Give Only Gives Rivers Perfume Falls July Heavy Roses Lived Deepen Things Early
A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future. Coco Chanel
Future Women Wear No Future Perfume Who
Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower. Charles M. Schwab
Man Personality Flower Perfume
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass. John Steinbeck
Change Men Wind Grass Hidden Dawn Like Perfume Curtains Little
Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air. Georges Bernanos
Together Peace Gardening Little Things Nothing Air Those Seem Give Individually Like Perfume Which Meadow Little Things Flowers
Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not. John Dewey
Beautiful Man Words Flower Seems Color Perfume Does Just Fruitless Which Them Speaks Who
To attract men, I wear a perfume called 'New Car Interior.' Rita Rudner
Interior Car Men Wear New Perfume Attract New Car
The appeal of perfume is that it is at once ephemeral and empowering. It creates a shimmering invisible armor that lingers in a room long after its wearer has gone and infuses our imagination with a subtle power, hinting at a hidden identity. Mary Gaitskill
Long Power Gone Imagination Our Once Hidden Invisible Perfume Armor Identity Empowering Lingers After Subtle Room Ephemeral Creates Appeal
Sweeter than the perfume of roses is a reputation for a kind, charitable, unselfish nature; a ready disposition to do to others any good turn in your power. Orison Swett Marden
Good Nature Power Reputation Disposition Others Kind Charitable Unselfish Perfume Ready Than Any Turn Your Sweeter Roses
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all. W. Somerset Maugham
You Simple Smell Beauty Nothing Rose Hunger About Like Perfume Ecstasy Said Really

More quotes?

Try another of these similiar topics.

About
Site pages
Top Quotes
Authors
Today's birthdays
Copyright © Quotesia 2025