Snout Quotes

#1. You can't use tact with a Congressman! A Congressman is a hog! You must take a stick and hit him on the snout!

Henry Adams

#2. Only when you have crossed the river can you say that the crocodile has a lump on his snout.

Ashanti

#3. Was that the point about scattering ashes: that in the end they looked the same? Not just the snout and the tail, but a dog's ashes and a man's ashes. All reducible, with the addition of a little flame, to this mottled dust?

Clive Barker

#4. Puck dropped to the monster's snout, right in front of its glowing eyes, grinning cheekily. Hey, ugly, lookee here! I'm doing the Macarena on your nose.

Julie Kagawa

#5. Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#6. There was the noise of a bolt shot back, and the door opened a few inches, enough to show a long snout and a pair of sleepy blinking eyes.

Kenneth Grahame

#7. This face is a dog's snout sniffing for garbage, snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.

Walt Whitman

#8. One might trouble one's dainty snout with a whiff of the taleggio displayed in an artisanal cheese shop, or take a saucer of jasmine tea and a knuckle of fennel-scented snuff at a counter of buffed Big Nothing granite. But there was a want in these ladies yet, and it was for the rude life of youth.

Kevin Barry

#9. Then, as the priest was emerging somewhat uneasily from his lair, he went straight up to him, looked deep into his eyes, and growled into his face: 'If you weren't wearing skirts, what a punch I'd give you right on your ugly snout, wouldn't I just!

Guy De Maupassant

#10. The memory slowly faded away. I could feel tears strolling down my snout from my eyes. I missed my father ... He did what he could to save me that day.

Grace Fiorre

#11. As a ring of gold in a swine's snout, so is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion. - PROVERBS 11:22

Rachel Held Evans

#12. An axe struck him in the head. Pain screamed through him as shards of bone from his own skull drove into his brain.
"Bastard" he snarled as he wheeled around to his attacker, a burly Ramreel with a black snout and glowing red eyes. "You fucked up my Mohawk.

Larissa Ione

#13. Pia divided her attention between the scenery outside and studying her son's triangular head with the slender, graceful snout. He was perfectly formed, with every detail that Dragos's dragon form had, only in miniature.

Thea Harrison

#14. I opened the box. Inside was the cutest little puppy I've ever seen in my life. It was black and furry, with a pointy little snout and bright black eyes and small ears that flopped down.

R.J. Palacio

#15. A congressman is a pig. The only way to get his snout from the trough is to rap it sharply with a stick.

Henry Adams

#16. For a moment the mole let his disappointment show on his snout. Then he grunted, "You're much smarter than you smell." Liza let out a whoop of satisfaction and chose not to worry too much about what stupidity smelled like.

Lauren Oliver

#17. 22. As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.

Anonymous

#18. 22 A beautiful woman who rejects good sense is like a gold ring in a pig's snout.

Anonymous

#19. I like the pooch. When I've had a dog's snout in my mouth, we tend to develop a special bond.

Randy Quarles

#20. Must look into the botanical background of substance known as hashish, I jotted in my journal, writing by the light of candles that grew incessantly jewel-like even as protean wafts of incense approached my snout like platters of ripe fruits borne on the back of Nubian pages.

Tom Robbins

#21. Fathom curled his claws around the brown sphere and brought his snout close to it, feeling quite silly indeed.

Tui T. Sutherland

#22. And, my brothers, it was real satisfaction to me to waltz-left two three, right two three-and carve left cheeky and right cheeky, so that like two curtains of blood seemed to pour out at the same time, one on either side of his fat filthy oily snout in the winter starlight.

Anthony Burgess

#23. The pig is taught by sermons and epistles
To think the God of Swine has snout and bristles.

Ambrose Bierce

#24. He brought the Glock up to shoulder height. He had one up the snout giving him fourteen rounds of influence.

Norm Applegate

#25. I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib. It is alive from snout to tail.

H.L. Mencken

#26. All things (e.g. a camel's journey through
A needle's eye) are possible, it's true.
But picture how the camel feels, squeezed out
In one long bloody thread, from tail to snout.

C.S. Lewis

#27. Paul patted Mrs. O'Leary's snout. The living room shook - BOOM, BOOM, BOOM - which either meant a SWAT team was breaking down the door or Mrs. O'Leary was wagging her tail.
I couldn't help but smile.

Rick Riordan

#28. Consider, o consider the lowly mole. His small hands are sore and his snout bleedeth.

Margery Allingham

#29. Annoyance and pathos warred in my breast, and after a short struggle, annoyance punched pathos in the snout like the voracious shark it was.

Kate Elliott

#30. I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis's and Owen Owen, only for a short time, and I found department stores personally difficult.

Philip Green

#31. I see harm reduction as a way of engaging people as part of that path to recovery.

Paul R. Ehrlich

#32. As with all knowledge, once you knew it, you couldn't imagine how it was that you hadn't known it before.

Margaret Atwood

#33. You are not dead, until every person who knew you is dead as well. Where did I hear that? It doesn't matter. There is a village in my head.

Neil Gaiman

#34. Day leans in toward me. He reaches up to touch my face. I can tell it still hurts him to use his fingers, and his nails are dark with dried blood. "You're brilliant," he says. "But you're a fool to stay wish someone like me."
I close my eyes at the touch of his hand. "Then we're both fools.

Marie Lu

#35. My influences were from Europe from between 1900 and 1945. My favorite artists were Egon Schiele or Edvard Munch. I wasn't interested in contemporary art at all.

Tracey Emin