To slit one's nose. [ Proverb ]
Justice has a nose of wax. [ German Proverb ]
He takes pepper in his nose. [ Proverb ]
To make a bridge of one's nose. [ Proverb ]
Those who in quarrels interpose.
Must often wipe a bloody nose. [ Gay ]
Plain as a nose in a man's face. [ Rabelais ]
An inch in a man's nose is much. [ Proverb ]
Joy, and Temperance, and Repose,
Slam the door on the doctor's nose. [ Longfellow ]
You were bred in brazen-nose college. [ Proverb ]
To hold one's nose to the grindstone. [ Proverb ]
I have a dog of Blenheim birth.
With fine long ears and full of mirth;
And sometimes, running over the plain,
He tumbles on his nose:
But quickly jumping up again
Like lightning on he goes! [ Ruskin ]
I have no urns, no dusty monuments;
No broken images of ancestors,
Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales
Of long descents, to boast false honors from. [ Ben Jonson ]
But when the fox hath once got in his nose,
He'll soon find means to make the body follow. [ William Shakespeare ]
Every man's nose will not make a shooing-horn. [ Proverb ]
Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
One may know by his nose what porridge he loves. [ Proverb ]
Your mamma's milk is scarce out of your nose yet. [ Proverb ]
It is the heart that makes the critic, not the nose. [ Max Muller ]
As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face. [ Burton ]
He that wipes the child's nose kisseth the mother's cheek. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
He has a hole under his nose that all his money runs into. [ Proverb ]
He that has a great nose thinks every body is speaking of it. [ Proverb ]
Though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft led by the nose with gold. [ William Shakespeare ]
It is a sheep of Beery, it is marked on the nose (applied to those that have a blow). [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
If Cleopatra's nose had been shorter, the face of the whole world would have been changed. [ Pascal ]
I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine: Every man for himself and God for us all. [ Cervantes ]
A fly is a very light burden; but if it were perpetually to return and settle on one's nose, it might weary us of our very lives. [ Fredrika Bremer ]
The mob is a sort of bear; while your ring is through its nose, it will even dance under jour cudgel; but; should the ring slip, and you lose your hold, the brute will turn and rend you. [ Jane Porter ]
Real beauty ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself an exaggeration and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think one becomes all nose or all forehead, or something horrid. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]