4 Quotes Tagged: nose

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.

I define a nose, as follows, — intreating only beforehand, and beseeching my readers, both male and female, of what age, complexion, and condition soever, for the love of God and their own souls, to guard against the temptations and suggestions of the devil, and suffer him by no art or wile to put any other ideas into their minds, than what I put into my definition. — For by the word Nose, throughout all this long chapter of noses, and in every other part of my work, where the word Nose occurs, — I declare, by that word I mean a Nose, and nothing more, or less.

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Well, in this world of basic stereotyping, give a guy a big nose and some weird hair and he is capable of anything.