Leaving Big Nose

Famous quotes containing the words leaving, big and/or nose:

    “As words go crying after themselves, leaving the dream
    Upended in a puddle somewhere
    As though “dead” were just another adjective.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    “We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.”
    —François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

    “Love sits enthroned in Clara’s eyes,
    The Graces play her lips around,
    And in her cheeks the tendrest dyes
    Of lilly mixed with rose are found.
    Where charms so irresistless throng
    What mortal heart can try resistance?
    But ah! her nose is two feet long,
    And bids our passions keep their distance.”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)