“Plain as the nose on a man's face.”

“It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?”

“As clear and as manifest as the nose in a man's face.”

“We have observed for thirty centuries that a large nose is a sign on the door of our face that says 'Herein dwells a man who is intelligent, prudent, courteous, affable, noble-minded and generous'. A small nose is a cork on the bottle of the opposite vices.”

“Fanny Kelly's divine plain face.”

“…the Malay word chium meant to plough the beloved’s face with one’s nose”

“You spend so much time wondering who you are, don't you think? You flounder about, searching for your identity, when most of the time it is plain as the nose on your face. You struggle with questions of purpose and need, and forget that the answers are found mostly inside yourselves.”

“At home, sipping Russet Tea,
I marvelled more and more
That pretty pretexts such as these
Should make folks leave the store.
I comforted myself to think I'd told 'em
pretty plain;
You've cut your nose to spite your face;
you'll soon come back again."”

“He would not, with a peremptory tone,
Assert the nose upon his face his own.”

“Garion started shaving. "Try to keep away from your nose," said Hettar wryly. "A man looks quite strange without a nose.”