Their Noses Quotes

52 quotes by 49 authors

I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating… — Jim Carrey
Why cat were given such terrific peripheral vision when they spend so much time looking down their noses is difficult to understand. — Roger Caras
These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and… — George Eliot
Together he [Girolamo Savonarola] and his archenemy Lorenzo [de' Medici] would have been the stuff of gargoyles. One could almost imagine the diptych in which… — Sarah Dunant
What always staggers me is that when people blow their noses, they always look into their hankies to see what came out. What do they… — Billy Connolly
Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do. — Ivan Turgenev
Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning. — Solomon
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. — Mary Antin
Dogs read the world through their noses and write their history in urine. — J. R. Ackerley
If children had been told that they could not blow their noses, this alone would make adults blush. — Karl Kraus
Everybody thinks of baseball as a sacred cow. When you have the nerve to challenge it, people look down their noses at you. There are… — Curt Flood
Over the years, Americans in particular have been all too willing to squander their hard-earned independence and freedom for the illusion of feeling safe under… — Cody Lundin
The purpose of philosophers is to show people what is right under their noses. — Eric Hoffer
The vast majority of the population seems to look down their noses upon self-reliance as some quaint dusty relic, entertained only by the hyperparanoid or… — Cody Lundin
This is the snobbery of the people on the Mayflower looking down their noses at the people who came over ON THE SECOND BOAT! — Mitchell Kapor
Talk to them about things they don't know. Try to give them an inferiority complex. If the actress is beautiful, screw her. If she isn't,… — John Huston
I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence. — Charles Dickens
For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there… — Allen Tate
Once, when a British Prime Minister sneezed, men half a world away would blow their noses. Now when a British Prime Minister sneezes nobody else… — Bernard Levin

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