Top 227 Noses Quotes & Sayings

REVEILLE, n. A signal to sleeping soldiers to dream of battlefields no more, but get up and have their blue noses counted.

It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them.

It is the small men and not the great who hold their noses in the air.

We stand guard over works of art, but species representing the work of aeons are stolen from under our noses

When you are down and out something always turns up - and it is usually the noses of your friends.

Valentine's Day: Rubbing singles' noses in their lack of a mate and the noses of couples in their lack of time.

I find that I take a great deal of pleasure knowing I get up people's noses to some degree.

I always break people's noses with the uppercut, not the hook.

The 'One Belt, One Road' initiative has been dismissed by some as not working. But America could be becoming weaker by ignoring what is going on right under our noses.

Rumors chase the dead like flies, and we follow them with our prim noses. None of us are gossips, but we love listening to those who are.

...I'm so over the tattoos and the T-shirts and rings through the noses. It's not pretty, it's not pleasant, it's not exciting. Please stop it now.

People don't see much further than their noses.

Fat noses have no place in the Hindi film industry. But it is not so in the West - otherwise, Anthony Quinn would have never been an actor.

These days I smile benignly at the fights that I see in NBA games. There aren't any broken noses or black eyes, which happened quite often when I played.

In the backseat Moose and Squirrel inhabited a pair of six-year-old-twins, and wouldn't stop bickering and picking their noses. They were clearly in their element.

Your talk of sniffling riders with invisible noses has unsettled me.

The RAF allowed me to play a lot of football, but like England later, they failed to recognise real talent when it was under their noses.

Why cat were given such terrific peripheral vision when they spend so much time looking down their noses is difficult to understand.

People tend to marry people with similar-width noses, eyes similarly apart, with complementary immune systems.

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

Certain writers look down their noses at plot, and I think I might have been one of them until I tried it.

Notwithstanding my experiments with electricity the thunderbolt continues to fall under our noses and beards; and as for the tyrant, there are a million of us still engaged at snatching away his sceptre.

The purpose of philosophers is to show people what is right under their noses.

A pair of Blue Noses on the next bench glared their disapproval at Evie’s knee-length dress. Evie decided to give them a real show. She hiked her skirt and, humming jauntily, rolled down her stockings, exposing her legs. It had the desired effect on the Blue Noses, who moved down the platform, clucking about the “disgrace of the young.” She would not miss this place.

Apparently wizards poke their noses in everywhere!

The screenplay is so well-written in a scruffy, fanzine way that you want to rub noses in it - the noses of those zombie writers who take 'screenwriting' classes that teach them the formulas for 'hit films.'

If children had been told that they could not blow their noses, this alone would make adults blush.

I have busted more hippies' noses than all the narcs in the free world.

No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.

The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty on the air we breathe.

Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do.

Actual queens are dignified, beloved, regal, and gracious, and don't walk into a room with their noses in the air.

This cowardly business of international NGOs like WWF and so many others from England sticking their noses into Brazil is going to end!

A nanny, by being the child's doughty defender, may put sensitive noses out of joint.

Britain is A world by itself, and we will nothing pay For wearing our own noses.

There are people who are just very, very sniffy and snobby and have always sort of looked down their noses at me.

I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.

One simple word: ugh. Is something still considered a conspiracy if it's played out right under our noses?

Bad weather has grounded the Luftwaffe and now we must stand by and watch countless thousands of the enemy getting away to England under our noses.

For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.

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.

I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?

However, I think anything is better than high intellectual pressure. That is the most unbecoming thing there is. It makes the noses of the young girls so particularly large.

Where do the noses go? I always wondered where the noses would go.

Is that why you came?' 'No, I came because I simply can't get enough of people looking down their noses at me. The girls at school are getting frightfully lax about it.' 'Are they? How remiss of them. We're taught from the cradle how to look down our noses, you know, we rich sons of bitches. Perhaps Westcliffe's curriculum is a tad too liberal these days.

I look at ordinary people in their suits, them with no scars, and I'm different. I don't fit with them. I'm where everybody's got scar tissue on their eyes and got noses like saddles. I go to conventions of old fighters like me and I see the scar tissue and all them flat noses and it's beautiful. ... They talk like me, like they got rocks in their throats. Beautiful!

Daddy was like a lot of people who kind of turn their noses up when you say the word 'organic.'

I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence.

Sculpture and seams are like boxers and broken noses: They go hand in hand.

We kings do develop a certain ability to recognize objects under our noses.

This is the snobbery of the people on the Mayflower looking down their noses at the people who came over ON THE SECOND BOAT!

You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses.

I get really frustrated with people who turn their noses up at talent shows like 'The Voice' and 'X-Factor.'

In high school, I got smacked and kicked around. Two bloody noses. It was horrible.

I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go?

Everybody knows that orthopaedic science provides beautiful false noses for those who have lost their noses naturally or as the result of an operation.

Dogs read the world through their noses and write their history in urine.

All papas and mammas have exactly that sort of sight which distinguishes objects at a distance clearly, while they need spectacles to see those under their very noses.

This looking down our noses at tea party people has got to stop.

Conceptual writing is looking for that "Aha!" moment, when something so simple, right under our noses, is revealed as being awe- inspiring, profound, and transcendent.