Noses quotes
454 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Browse quotes that often appear alongside noses — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year," said Margaret, standing at the window one dull afternoon, looking out at the frostbitten garden. "That's the reason I was born in it," observed Jo pensively, quite unconscious of the blot on her nose."
"If something smells bad, why put your nose in it?"
"I also learned that you didn’t come onto this earth as a perfectionist or control freak. You weren’t born a person of cringe and contraction. You were born as energy, as life, made of the same stuff as stars, blossoms, breezes. You learned contraction to survive, but that was then. You have paid through the nose-paid but good. It is now your turn to reap."
"You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose."
"My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool."
"Men are always ready to nose around and find out about other's lives, but they feel lazy to know themselves and correct their own life."
"Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose."
"The woman I love she got a prize fighter nose, cauliflower ears and a run in her hose."
"Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose."
"The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid"
"Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose."
"He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it."
"Everybody nose dive, hold your breath, count to five. Back slap, booby trap, cover it up in bubble wrap. Room shake, earth quake, find a way to stay awake. It's going to blow, it's going to break, this is more than I can take."
"I'm not afraid of anyone. I'm not shy about anything. Not even my big nose."
"I see my large nose, like half an avocado. I broke it falling downstairs when I was six, and it now resembles a large blob of play-dough."
"If you happen to have a wart on your nose or forehead, you cannot help imagining that no one in the world has anything else to do but stare at your wart, laugh at it, and condemn you for it, even though you have discovered America."
"When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there- in sunny weather- stretched at full length, asleep and blissful, with her furry belly to the sun and a paw curved over her nose."
"No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses."
"When I was young, to have a big nose, big lips or dark skin was the worst. You were the wretched."
"...the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed."
