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My father was a freedman who wiped his nose on his sleeve.—BION
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Any nose May ravage with impunity a rose.—BROWNING, Sordello
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As clear and as manifest as the nose on a man's face.—ROBERT BURTON, Anatomy of Melancholy
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He would not with a peremptory tone,
Assert the nose upon his face his own.—COWPER, Conversation
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Another tumble! That's his precious nose!—THOMAS HOOD, Ode to My Infant Son
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When I want any good head-work done, I always choose a man, if suitable otherwise, with a long nose.—NAPOLEON
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Cleopatra's nose: had it been shorter, the whole aspect of the world would have been altered.—PASCAL, Pensees
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The King is well enough pleased with her; which, I fear, will put Madam Castlemaine's nose out of joint.—SAMUEL PEPYS, Diary
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Paying through the nose.—Proverb
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He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.—Proverb
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Hold their noses to the grindstone.—Proverb
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An inch in a man's nose is much.—Proverb
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To cut off one's nose to spite one's face.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae
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Nose, nose, nose, nose!
And who gave thee that jolly red nose?
Sinament and Ginger, Nutmegs and Cloves,
And that gave me my jolly red nose.—THOMAS RAVENSCROFT, Deuteromela
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I like the saucy retrousse,
Admire the Roman, love the Greek;
But hers is none of these—it's a Beak.—E. M. ROBINSON, A Disagreeable Feature
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A great nose indicates a great man—
Genial, courteous, intellectual,
Virile, courageous.—EDMOND ROSTAND, Cyrano de Bergerac
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His nose was as sharp as a pen.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry V
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Take my advice and seek no further than the end of your nose. You will always know that there is something beyond that; and in that knowledge you will be hopeful and happy.—BERNARD SHAW,The Adventures of the Black Girl
