quotations about beards
He has not past three or four hairs on his chin.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Troilus and Cressida
Small show of man was yet upon his chin;
His phoenix down began but to appear.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A Lover's Complaint
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
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