BEARD QUOTES IV

quotations about beards

A beard creates lice, not brains.

AMMIANUS

epigram


Small show of man was yet upon his chin;
His phoenix down began but to appear.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

A Lover's Complaint


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


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

AESCHYLUS

fragment, Prometheus the Fire-Kindler


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