I must confess that I do not understand why things are so arranged, that women seize us by the nose as deftly as they do the handle of a teapot: either their hands are so constructed, or else our noses are good for nothing else.
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I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
Tai tapped his left nostril. 'You know what this is, Nakkoo? It's the place where the outside world meets the world inside you.
I'm not a romantic lead. I have sticking-out ears and a little troll nose.
I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.
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.
The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
Well, in this world of basic stereotyping, give a guy a big nose and some weird hair and he is capable of anything.
I've always been quite famous for my nose.
Give me a man with a good allowance of nose ... when I want any good head-work done I choose a man - provided his education has been suitable - with a long nose.
Plain as a nose in a man's face.
If the nose of Cleopatra had been a little shorter the whole face of the world would have been changed.
Eating pizza is like having a little heaven in your nose. Wait, that's not what you eat pizza with. I always get it confused with pizza-pie.
Any noseMay ravage with impunity a rose.
Nothing is more on the nose,than sun cream.
I say, `Woe to them that have a nose, a real nose,and come to look round the torture-chamber! Aha, aha, aha!
For some reason Canon Fenneau made me feel a little uneasy. His voice might be soft, it was also coercive. He had small eyes, a large loose mouth, the lips thick, a somewhat receding chin. The eyes were the main feature. They were unusual eyes, not only almost unnaturally small, but vague, moist, dreamy, the eyes of a medium. His cherubic side, increased by a long slightly uptilted nose, was a little too good to be true, with eyes like that. In the manner in which he gave you all his attention there was a taste for mastery.
I'm sorry, she thought. But she said nothing. I can't save you or anybody else from being dark. She thought of Frank. I wonder if he's dead yet. Said the wrong things; spoke out of line. No, she thought. Somehow he likes Japs. Maybe he identifies with them because they're ugly. She had always told Frank that he was ugly. Large pores. Big nose. Her own skin was finely knit, unusually so. Did he fall dead without me? A fink is a finch, a form of bird. And they say birds die.