Sordello
Any nose
May ravage with impunity a rose.
Coleridge Samuel Taylor 1772-1834
Table Talk
You abuse snuff! Perhaps it is the final cause of the human nose.
Fuller Thomas 1608-1661
He that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.
Kipling Rudyard 1865-1936
Just So Stories ‘The Elephant's Child'
Then the Elephant's Child put his head down close to the Crocodile's
musky, tusky mouth, and the Crocodile caught him by his little nose
... ‘Led go! You are hurtig be!'
La Fantoine Jean de 1621-1695
Fables ‘Le Renard et le Bouc'
This fellow did not see further than his own nose.
Pascal Blaise 1623-1662
Pensées
Had Cleopatra's nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have changed.
Proverbs and Sayings
Jewish
The poor schlemiel is a man who falls on his back and breaks his nose.
Rostand Edmond 1868-1918
Cyrano de Bergerac
A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, such as I am.
Schopenhauer Arthur 1788-1860
The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and run away even before he comes near then, the fly lights upon his very nose.
Wells H.G. 1866-1946
Select Conversations with an Uncle
Bah! the thing is not a nose at all, but a bit of primordial chaos clapped on to my face.
Hazlitt William 1778-1830
Persons who undertake to pry into, or cleanse out all the filth of a common sewer, either cannot have very nice noses, or will soon lose them.