Humour Quote by Douglas Adams

“His face bore an imperial nose, one belonging to the same pedigree as the one venomously blasted from the face of the Sphinx statue…

— David B. Dacosta

“There are cancers so insidious in their nature that their very pulsation is invisible. Such cancers leave the ivory whiteness of the skin untouched,…

— Alexandre Dumas

“The symptoms syphilis engendered worsened over time. In addition to the unsightly skin ulcers that pockmarked the body in the later stages of the…

— Lindsey Fitzharris

“The Sphinx is missing a nose. Someone shot it off in a moment of idle desecration—some say it was Mameluke Turks, others, Napoleonic soldiers.”

— Carl Sagan

“Behold, the Cavern of Ages,” Lord Aeratas pronounced, reverently. “Depository of our ancestors’ enneagrams, held within the living stone for all eternity.” “It smells…

— Terry Mancour

“His face was a strong—a very strong—aquiline, with high bridge of the thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils; with lofty domed forehead, and hair…

— Bram Stoker

“To understand the ‘wounded men’ of Upper Palaeolithic art, I now consider somatic hallucinations; these include attenuation of the body and limbs, polymelia (having…

— James David Lewis-Williams

NOSE, n. The extreme outpost of the face. From the circumstance that great conquerors have great noses, Getius, whose writings antedate the age of…

— Ambrose Bierce

“Here, on a human face, appeared all the ruin following upon hopeless labour. Laveuve's unkempt beard straggled over his features, suggesting an old horse…

— Émile Zola

“They were buffoons with barricaded eyes, their shoulders held in positions of immovable defense. Each position upon the great floor could be seen as…

— Frank Herbert

I've got a wonky nose. Is it classical, is it not? That's what's hard work, getting down into the nitty-gritty of who are the…

— Ciaran Hinds

“His freckles have faded but must riot every summer across his nose and cheeks.”

— Michael Robotham