“The flower of sweetest smell is shy and lowly.”

“The sweetest flowers in all the world—
A baby's hands.”

“Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.”

“For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds.”

“Flowers rejoice when night is done,
Lift their heads to greet the sun;
Sweetest looks and odours raise,
In a silent hymn of praise.”

“A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.”

“It's so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance.”

“When you have a full bouquet you can't sit back and smell each flower.”

“Bees do have a smell, you know, and if they don't they should, for their feet are dusted with spices from a million flowers.”

“Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him.”