Nose Quotes

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

Cut off your nose to spite your face.

I do smell all horse-piss; at which my nose is in great indignation. (The Tempest)

He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.

Thou wert best set – thy lower part where thy nose stands. (All’s Well That Ends Well)

The best way to keep a nice-looking nose is to keep it out of other people’s business.

I define a nose as follows – intreating only beforehand, and beseeching my readers, both male and female, of what age, complexion, and condition soever, for the love of God and their own souls, to guard against the temptations and suggestions of the devil, and suffer him by no art or wile to put any […]

A big nose never spoils a pretty face.

To wipe the nose on the cap or sleeve belongs to rustics; to wipe the nose on the arm or elbow to pastrycooks; and to wipe the nose with the hand, if by chance at the same instant you hold it to your gown, is not much more civil. But to receive the excreta of […]

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.