quotations about beards
How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false
As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins
The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars,
Who, inward search'd, have livers white as milk?
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Merchant of Venice
A man with a beard was always a little suspect anyway. You couldn't say you wore a beard because you liked a beard. People didn't like you for telling the truth. You had to say you had a scar so you couldn't shave.
JOHN STEINBECK
Cannery Row
"Beard" isn't really a superpower.
AMY LEIGH STRICKLAND
The Pantheon
A decent beard has long been the number one must-have fashion item for any fugitive from justice.
CRAIG BROWN
The Telegraph, July 26, 2008
No beard, no booty.
THIGHBRUSH
t-shirt
The scruffier your beard, the sharper you need to dress.
ASHTON KUTCHER
"Forget Hollywood: Ashton Kutcher is Silicon Valley's Secret Weapon", Details, August 10, 2011
If the beard were all, a goat might preach.
DANISH PROVERB
His beard was all colors, a grove of trees in autumn, deep brown and fire-orange and wine-red, an untrimmed tangle across the lower half of his face. His cheeks were apple-red. He looked like a friend; like someone you had known all your life.
NEIL GAIMAN
Fragile Things
What a beard hast thou got! Thou hast got more hair on thy chin than Dobbin my fill-horse has on his tail.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Merchant of Venice
A man's face is not a rich person's lawn; you are wasting resources if you devote that much energy to trimming your beard, sideburns, or mustache just so. Nor is a man's face the woods; there need not be the tangled weeds, shrubbery, and wildlife.
ELLIE KEMPER
"A Few Thoughts on the Male Anatomy", GQ, April 19, 2016
A beard is a gift you give your face.
ANONYMOUS
Years ago, he shaved off his beard, without telling her, just appeared at the breakfast table one morning with half his face missing, or so it seemed to her in the first, shocked moment of seeing him. If she had met him in the street she would not have recognised him, except for his eyes. How strange he looked, grotesque, almost, with those indecently naked cheeks and the chin flat and square like the blunt edge of a stone axe. It was as if the top part of his head had been taken off and carved and trimmed and jammed down into the scooped-out jaws of a stranger.
JOHN BANVILLE
The Infinities
While his eyes were like fire, his face like a shroud,
His form like a king, and his beard like a cloud,
And his voice loud and shrill, as if blown from a reed
JOAQUIN MILLER
"Kit Carson's Ride"
'Tis not the beard that makes the philosopher.
THOMAS FULLER
Gnomologia
He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Much Ado About Nothing
A beard on a man is only a way of hiding something, his face of course, but also the inner matters, like a hedge around a secret garden, or a cover over a bird cage.
SEBASTIAN BARRY
The Secret Scripture
Beards--saving the husband from ill-timed expressions since eternity.
SHAHENSHAH HAFEEZ KHAN
attributed, goodreads
There's a reason caveman started to develop sophisticated tools before the meteor wiped them all out: It's so they could f***ing shave. Do you know how frustrating it must have been to be hunched over all night trying to start a fire only to finally succeed just to have your beard go up in flames?
ARI GOLD
The Gold Standard: Rules to Rule By
A beard well lathered is half shaven.
OPRAH WINFREY
What I Know for Sure
Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
GOD
Leviticus 19:27