“737. The best smell is bread, the best savour salt, the best love that of children.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“737. The best smell is bread, the best savour salt, the best love that of children.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“The best definition of love in the world is not worth one kiss from the girl you love.”
Machado de Assis book The Mirror (short story)
A melhor definição do amor não vale um beijo de moça namorada.
"O Espelho", from Papéis avulses (1882); William L. Grossman and Helen Caldwell (trans.) The Psychiatrist, and Other Stories (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1966) p. 60.
“The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.”
Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker
1930s
“The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.”
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
Quote, attributed to Picasso in: Jean Cocteau (1932), Opium: The Diary of an Addict. p. 63
Quotes, 1930's
Nicole Kidman (1967) Australian-American actress and film producer
Playboy magazine, Playboy interview, February 2005.
“I love the smell of the universe in the morning.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958) American astrophysicist and science communicator
“I even love the smell of books.”
Adriana Trigiani (1970) American film director