Poor brain! How helplessly it dissolves when willing eyes meet and the nose warms to those old jungle scents.
When we are working at something, we come down from our high logical horse and sniff around with our nose to the ground. Then we obliterate our traces in order to become more God-like.
It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
[On vanity:] The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed.
. . . the nose is generally the organ in which stupidity is most readily displayed.
The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties.
At moments I dislike having a face, a nose, lips, because he has them.
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.
The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.
If you had a face like mine, you'd punch me right on the nose, and I'm just the fella to do it.
When you first saw 'The Truman Show,' did anyone else walk around for the next week not picking your nose just in case?
Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose.
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.
There's a Celtic saying, "Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose. "
They don't make red noses to fit black people. I have a wide nose like a Volkswagen and I have never had a red nose that fitted me.
I'd love to see that rat nose smashed!
Friendship could be right under your nose but if you are caught up in yourself you will never find it.
I never had plastic surgery. I had a nose procedure done because I had to. I had no cartilage in my nose; I have a piece of cartilage from my ear put into my nose. I had a medical procedure done. I have no plastic in my nose.
Zen is very easy! It's like touching your nose when you wash your face in the morning!
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.