Perfume is the scent that pours out of a flower’s soul when crushed.
– Matshona Dhliwayo
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- A rose’s beautiful scent is extracted only when it is crushed. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Women waste so much time wearing no perfume. As for me, in every step that I have taken in life, I have been accompanied by an exquisite perfume! – C JoyBell C
- Once again I felt light-headed, but this time it wasn’t from the scent of lilacs; it was from the scent of my own death. – Peter David
- And while I do love coffee – both the scent…and the taste – I have no doubt I’d prefer the scent…and the taste…of something…more personal. – Skye Jordan
- The fairest things have fleetest end,Their scent survives their close:But the rose’s scent is bitternessTo her who loved the rose. – Francis Thompson
- Flowers of sin, like some black sun,Bloom in my dreams Their perfume-sodden fragrance Spreading through each heartbeat. – Shiv Kumar Batalvi
- If you press grapes, wine will pour out; if you crush roses, perfume will pour out; if you afflict the talented, genius will pour out. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Learn from roses; even when trampled they give off perfume, not despair. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- A blessed companion is a book–a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend…a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into your own. – Douglas William Jerrold
- Foolishness pours out of an open mouth….but wisdom sneaks in through the ears…. – Gail Z Martin
- She pours sugar on her life and drinks the artist’s marrow in the bone of her glass and she lives. – Kelli Russell Agodon
- She gave thanks for the grace that pours down when you least expect it-and wasn’t that just another name for love? – Elaine Hussey
- She wasn’t ordinary, I liked her that way. Mystery oozed from her pours as she walked so lightly I could have mistaken her for an angel. – Nikki Rowe
- When a woman gives birth her waters break and she pours out the child and the child runs free. – Jeanette Winterson
- When it rains it pours and when it shines you get melanoma. – Sol Luckman
- Water runs if you try to grasp it, but pours onto an open hand. – The Silver Elves
- In the stillness, our eyes do all the silent talking. Our chests move with heavy breathing and desire pours out through our pores. It’s unmistakable. – Yara Greathouse
- Manifest of souls;Adventurous soul,Enthusiastic soul, Sound soul,Happy soul,Great soul. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Could I pick some flowers for Miranda?’ I asked.-˜You cannot take these flowers,’ said Zoran. -˜They belong to the government. – Doug MacLeod
- Women are like beautiful flowers. Only when you love them and take good care of them will they fully bloom into the beautiful flowers that they are. – Avijeet Das
- A country which prefers guns to flowers will live the beauty of the flowers only in its graveyards! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- In time of rain I come:I can sing among the flowers:I utter my song: my heart is glad.Water of flowers foams over the earth:My heart was intoxicated. – Jane Bierhorst
- I love flowers for being flowers, directly.And I love trees for being trees without my thought. – Alberto Caeiro
- The flowers are so beautiful, but God’s love is infinitely stronger for us than the beauty of ALL flowers and all beautiful things combined! – Craig Compton
- Rumi says love turns thorns into flowers. This means that hate turns flowers into thorns! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- You wanted hearts and flowers. You have my heart – & here are the flowers. – Christian Grey
- It’s important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book… it’s perfume, it’s incense, it’s the dust of Egypt… – Ray Bradbury
- Her joyful spirit would bring laughter and happiness to anyone in her life with the same natural ease that a rose blooms and sheds its perfume. – Aleksandra Layland
- The world is not full of crazy ninja perfume ladies! – Elisa Paige
- I notice perfume smells on his shirts and even later hours. I suspect he’s having an affair but really don’t care. – Martha Lemasters
- Such actions are beyond praise: it is the perfume of such sweet and noble human sympathy that makes this wild beasts’ cage a world habitable for men. – Frank Harris
- The freshness of a smile and the fragrance of a perfume often define the personality of a woman. – Debasish Mridha
- The amount of perfume she had on was like a human sacrifice on Incense Night. – Stephen Moles
- Your children are perfume of your love. – Kishore Bansal
- Salt is added to dried rose petals with the perfume and spices, when we store them away in covered jars, the summers of our past. – Wallace Stegner
- Perfume is the key to our memories – Kate Lord Brown
- Death is a dark flower, its perfume heady and dangerous as it pulls you into its bosom. – Carol Weekes
- Perfume counters in department stores, Holly Deblin smells of, the middle of July, and cinnamon Tic Tacs. – David Mitchell
- …a woman not yet seen, but whose perfume accumulates on the horizon like a storm cloud. – Fernand Dumont
- Shit will always be Shit! No amount of perfume can make it stink less – Tahira Abrar