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Quotes About Nose

About his nose, Pierpont could be more sensitive than he was about his trusts.
~ Ron Chernow
This commissary was a man of very repulsive mien, with a pointed nose, with yellow and salient cheek bones, with eyes small but keen and penetrating, and an expression of countenance resembling at one the polecat and the fox. His head, supported by a long and flexible neck, issued from his large black robe, balancing itself with a motion very much like that of the tortoise thrusting his head out of his shell.
~ Alexandre Dumas
It has been observed that one's nose is never so happy as when thrust into the affairs of others from which some physiologists have drawn the inference that the nose is devoid of the sense of smell.
~ Ambrose Bierce
This thing Allegiance, as I suppose, Is a ring fitted in the subject's nose, Whereby that organ is kept rightly pointed To smell the sweetness of the Lord's anointed.
~ Ambrose Bierce
I won't. But … pamphlets?' 'Absolutely.' 'Etchings?' 'The language of the heart.' 'Do you really think people are that stupid?' 'Darling.' She leaned closer, and kissed him gently, and touched him lightly on the tip of his nose with her fingertip. 'People are far more stupid than that.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Above it all drifted a silvery scythe blade of moon. Wayne looked up at it, and away, and then looked again. The moon had a hooked nose, a thoughtfully frowning mouth, and a single eye closed in sleep. When it exhaled, a wind rippled across the plains and silvery beds of cloud raced through the night. Wayne almost clapped his hands in delight to look upon it.
~ Joe Hill
A great nose may be an index Of a great soul
~ Edmond Rostand
A great nose indicates a great man—Genial, courteous, intellectual,Virile, courageous.
~ Edmond Rostand
I tried sniffing Coke once, but the ice cubes got stuck in my nose.
~ Anonymous
The Florida Gator head is long and funny looking. It scrapes my nose. Every time I put that thing on I get scraped and blood comes down my face.
~ Lee Corso
But to have had to wear that yucky candy striper's uniform all that time. Jessica pinched her nose with her fingers.
~ Francine Pascal
Buddy, I don't mean to poke my nose in where it don't belong, but that there is a dame to kill for. Why'd you let her go?
~ Frank Miller
Wie leicht Grenadine mit Selter beim Lachen durch die Nase geht (Bar vor der Opéra Comique).
~ Franz Kafka
A thousand woodpeckers flew in through the window and settled themselves on Pinocchio's nose.
~ Carlo Collodi
My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.
~ Jonathan Swift
Want me to give him a little advice before he gets his nose broken?" "No," Jack said flatly. Jack was thinking that breaking his nose was going to feel very good. If Nick put one hand on her, he was going to come apart. "Good," Preacher said. "I haven't been to a good bar fight in years." In
~ Robyn Carr
Bluetooth earpieces are so geeky," Dan Cahill said. "But they free up your hands for surfing the web, stealing priceless jewels, and eating pastry," Atticus said, taking a huge bite out of an apple strudel. "And picking your nose," Dan added, which caused Atticus to blow a mouthful of strudel all over the seat in front of them occupied by Dan's sister, Amy, who was trying to sleep
~ Roland Smith
Powerful men do not necessarily make the most eminent travelers; it is rather those who take the most interest in their work that succeed the best; as a huntsman says, "It is the nose that gives speed to the hound.
~ Rolf Potts
She would be. If you asked her for her hymn-book she'd imagine it was being borrowed for some felonious purpose." Aurelia looked interested. "I don't see what one could do with a hymn-book," she exclaimed. Mrs. Wookie's nose grew long again. "Don't you?" she answered. "Neither do I.
~ Ronald Firbank
An artist's impression of what it would look like if Mr Big Nose's nose exploded.
~ Andy Griffiths
ABOVE: An artist's impression of what it would look like if Mr Big Nose's nose exploded.
~ Andy Griffiths
Saving Thy Gracious Presence, he to me A long-legged grasshopper appears to be, That springing flies, and flying springs, And in the grass the same old ditty sings. Would he still lay among the grass he grows in! Each bit of dung he seeks, to stick his nose in.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Our dependence on smell is revealed every time we have a cold; once the nose becomes stuffed up, we lose the capacity to taste anything, simply because we cannot smell it.
~ John A. McDougall
Did you have to understand life to plunge in? Even kindness, when he encountered it, was a riddle half the time. If you walked into a door and bloodied your nose, it was one thing, but empathy for handicaps had never been his thing when he himself had none. Empathy had been for people of good cheer.
~ Edward Hoagland