Noses Quotes

...the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed.

Don't cut off your nose yourself.

This veridic nose arrives everywhere a quarter of an hour before its master. Ten shoemakers, good round fat ones too, go and sit down to work under it out of the rain.

I try to catch them right on the tip of his nose, because I try to punch the bone into the brain.

Life can make you do many things, even kiss a man with a runny nose.

In a better world, I can do anything. I'll be there in a better world. In a better world, they will not laugh at me or look down their nose at me.

When I was young, to have a big nose, big lips or dark skin was the worst. You were the wretched.

A great nose may be an index Of a great soul

If I blew my nose the Daily Express and the Daily Mail would say that I am trying to spread germ warfare.

Don't put your nose into somebody else's laundry, if you are not willing to fold your own.

I pick my nose and I'm not ashamed to admit it. If there's a bogey then just pick it, man.

I was taking a nose dive somewhere between eleven and twelve because my sister had died and I was practicing something that siblings do which is follow in their footsteps and die as well.

For unknown foods, the nose acts always as a sentinal and cries. 'Who goes there?'

You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses.

If your nose is up in the air, you cannot see where you are going.

Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another.

Some taxpayers close their eyes, some stop their ears, some shut their mouths, but all pay through the nose.

I always tell people that if you get upset over what someone says, imagine him or her with a clown's nose on and you won't get so angry.

You don't want to bite your nose off to spite your face

But when the fox hath once got in his nose, He'll soon find means to make the body follow.

The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty on the air we breathe.

A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms.

Wolves never look more funny than when they have lost the scent and scrabble to find it again: they hop in the air; they run in circles, they plow up the ground with their noses . . . .

Hope, politeness, the blowing of a nose, the squeak of a boot, all produce "boum.

The problem is, that we've got a position, often times by the NRA that says any regulation whatsoever is the camel's nose under the tent. And that, I think, is not where the American people are at.

I've been good about keeping my nose to the grindstone.

Sometimes I feel like I've got my nose pressed up against the window of a bakery, only I'm the bread.

Since form is emptiness and emptiness is form, then instead of a hand grasping at nothing, it is better to grasp at someone's nose because this is closer to reality.

I will say that the high road can get so high that you can get a nose bleed, in which case you have to get off the high road.

When you put on a clown suit and a rubber nose, nobody has any idea what you look like inside.

I'm just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.

Many a man's tongue broke his nose.

Osbert was the only one who didn't seem suspicious. He was so interested in the Decline of Western Civilization that he missed the version of it taking place under his nose.

Richard Burton came from the same town as me, so I thought I'd follow my nose, and follow my luck. I think I've been very lucky.

Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft let by the nose with gold.

Since I was a little child, my nose - I think it's too big.

I've always felt if my nose were more crooked, critics would focus more on my acting.

I packed coffee once when I lived in Australia, and I just remember going around every day with coffee up my nose and in my ears.

You went up to be examined with the other Jewish children, your heart heavy about that matter of your nose.

I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go?

Hold the newsreader's nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers.

The first time I ask him, have you had your cheekbones raised, have you had your nose changed? He denied it all. I was asking him to compare his face with what it looked like years ago.

I am a big Bewitched fan... something about the way Elizabeth Montgomery twitched her nose.

The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee.

A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone.

Don't just stand there, idiot. Call a doctor, and then help me find a nose.

Eileen Ford wanted me to fix my nose and my teeth. I said, Sure, great, but I really had no intention to.

The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under your cudgel; but should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you.

The conclusion, therefore, is that there are two major forces in society: love, which multiplies the species, and the nose, which subordinates it to the individual. Procreation, equilibrium.

Poor brain! How helplessly it dissolves when willing eyes meet and the nose warms to those old jungle scents.