BEARD QUOTES IV

quotations about beards

Does he offer you his foolish beard to pluck at?

PERSIUS

Satires


BEARD, n. The hair that is commonly cut off by those who justly execrate the absurd Chinese custom of shaving the head.

AMBROSE BIERCE

The Devil's Dictionary


He has not past three or four hairs on his chin.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Troilus and Cressida


Like the goat, you'll mourn for your beard.

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Prometheus the Fire-Kindler


She feels like touching the stubble of his beard with the tips of her fingers, smoothing her hands over his face the way she does with the covers of her books.

HANNE ORSTAVIK

Kjaerlighet