A Quote by Cyril Connolly

The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.

Cyril Connolly

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Cyril Connolly
English - Journalist
September 10, 1903 - November 26, 1974

The body of a dead enemy always smells sweet.

Titus Flavius Vespasian

Honor is an old-world thing; but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong.

Ouida

Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm.

James Anthony Froude

It was very pleasant to savor its aroma, for smells have the power to evoke the past, bringing back sounds and even other smells that have no match in the present. -Tita

Laura Esquivel

Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do. Go through his clothes and look for loose change.

Billy Crystal

Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past.

William Faulkner

Preacher who says that the sweet life is made from bitter parts is more or less telling those who have come to mourn the teenage suicide that this is just one bitter ingredient in the sweet thing foreordained by the benevolent god. To which I want to shake my fist and say: There is not one sweet thing about it. It is only bitter.

Kyle Minor

It is a strange thing to read a letter after the writer is dead - a bitter-sweet thing, in which pain and comfort are strangely mingled.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

The past is a distraction, a source of envy, enmity, bitterness. Only the present matters, for only in the present can we shape the future. Cut loose the past; it is dead weight. Let the Extirpation continue. Let it never end.

Stephen Baxter

The gentlemen like it when a lady smells sweet.

Bertrice Small

Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.

Flip Wilson

Sweet smells are sometimes used to cover foul ones.

George R. R. Martin

History, as I recall, was never this winsome, and especially not this clean, but the real thing would never sell: most people prefer a past in which nothing smells.

Margaret Atwood

What airs outblown from ferny dells And clover-bloom and sweet brier smells.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Sweet is the rose, but grows upon a brere; Sweet is the juniper, but sharp his bough; Sweet is the eglantine, but stiketh nere; Sweet is the firbloome, but its braunches rough; Sweet is the cypress, but its rynd is tough; Sweet is the nut, but bitter is his pill; Sweet is the broome-flowre, but yet sowre enough; And sweet is moly, but his root is ill.

Edmund Spenser

Some geopolitical conflicts are morally complicated. The Israel-Gaza war is not. It possesses a moral clarity not only rare but excruciating. [...] For Hamas, the only thing more prized than dead Jews are dead Palestinians.

Charles Krauthammer

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