Beard Quotes - Page 5

• He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Youth, Benedick

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.107

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• She looked at a silver birch: it would have a soft, showery voice and would look like a slender girl, with hair blown all about her face and fond of dancing. She looked at the oak: he would be a wizened, but hearty, old man with a frizzled beard and warts on his fact and hands, with hair growing out of the warts. She looked at the beech under which she was standing. Ah! --she would be the best of all. She would be a gracious goddess, smooth and stately, the Lady of the Wood.

  C. S. Lewis

  Girl, Men, Hair

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• The Calormens have dark faces and long beards. They wear flowing robes and orange-colored turbans, and they are a wise, wealthy, courteous, cruel and ancient people. They bowed most politely to Caspian and paid him long compliments all about the fountains of prosperity irrigating the gardens of prudence and virtue --and things like that-- but of course what they wanted was the money they had paid.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wise, Dark, Garden

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• For a while he'd tried molding himself into the tragic Romantic hero, brooding and staring clench-jawed off into space as he composed dark verse in his head. But it turned out that trying to appear tragic in Incontinence, Indiana, was redundant, and his mother kept shouting at him and making him forget his rhymes. "Tommy, if you keep grinding your teeth like that, they'll wear away and you'll have to have dentures like Aunt Ester." Tommy only wished his beard was as heavy as Aunt Ester's---then he could stare out over the moors while he stroked it pensively.

  Christopher Moore

  Mother, Hero, Dark

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• How can a young man like to wear a beard?

  Dodie Smith

  Men, Young, Young Man

  Dodie Smith (2017). “I Capture the Castle: Young Adult Edition”, p.74, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Someone got killed up here.... It was outside. A tall man. He had one leg longer’n the other. And a beard. He was probably a hunter." "How’d you know all that?" "I just trod on ‘im.

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Hunters, Legs

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• Having a beard is a good way to make your face more susceptible to velcro.

  Demetri Martin

  Velcro, Way, Faces

  Twitter post from Apr 24, 2012

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• Generally, women can't do this, but men retain the ancient ability to leave a family and a past. They just unhook themselves, like removing a fake beard, and skulk discreetly back into society, changed men. Unrecognizable.

  Zadie Smith

  Past, Men, Fake

  Zadie Smith (2003). “White Teeth”, p.15, Vintage

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• When I was a kid, I had this idea that I would have a beard when I got older. I thought it'd be nice to rub my chin.

  Rosario Dawson

  Nice, Kids, Ideas

  "Breaking Commandments with Rosario Dawson" by A.J. Jacobs, www.esquire.com. April 1, 2006.

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• I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.

  Iain Banks

  Writing, Thinking, Stories

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• It’s fairly standard. Also, I’m fourteen. Also, your beard’s stupid.” “Isn’t this fun?” Skulduggery said brightly. “The three of us getting along so well.

  Derek Landy

  Fun, Stupid, Three

  Derek Landy (2009). “The Faceless Ones (Skulduggery Pleasant, Book 3)”, p.11, HarperCollins UK

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• Hey, I'm just a singer in a fabulous dress, with great hair and a beard!

  Conchita Wurst

  Hair, Dresses, Hey

  "Meet the Bearded Drag Queen Who’s Taking Europe by Storm" by Mariah Blake, www.motherjones.com. May 9, 2014.

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• Oh yeah, you’re a regular sage. Shouldn’t you be sitting on a mountain somewhere cultivating a long white beard waiting for knowledge seekers to come to you?” “Have I mentioned that sarcasm has the potential to be detrimental to the natural beauty of your face?” he countered.

  Jacquelyn Frank

  Sarcasm, White, Long

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• The U.S. intelligence community is palsied by lawyers. When we were going to capture Osama bin Laden, for example, the lawyers were more concerned with bin Laden's safety and his comfort than they were with the officers charged with capturing him. We had to build an ergonomically designed chair to put him in, special comfort in terms of how he was shackled into the chair. They even worried about what kind of tape to gag him with so it wouldn't irritate his beard. The lawyers are the bane of the intelligence community.

  Michael Scheuer

  Safety, Community, Special

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• Old men and comets have been reverenced for the same reason: their long beards, and pretences to foretell events.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Long, Age

  'Thoughts on Various Subjects' (1706)

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• That kid's got an arm like Uncle Fester at an exhibition of Pre-Colombian... um, Christ, I lost it. I was going for something thick. So what's with the beard, Grizzly Fouts?

  Dennis Miller

  Football, Uncles, Kids

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• Estate agents. You can't live with them, you can't live with them. The first sign of these nasty purulent sores appeared round about 1894. With their jangling keys, nasty suits, revolting beards, moustaches and tinted spectacles, estate agents roam the land causing perturbation and despair. If you try and kill them, you're put in prison: if you try and talk to them, you vomit. There's only one thing worse than an estate agent but at least that can be safely lanced, drained and surgically dressed. Estate agents. Love them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

  Stephen Fry

  Home, Keys, Land

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• If you have any shame, forbear to pluck the beard of a dead lion.

  Martial

  Respect, Lions, Shame

  Martial (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Martial (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• As I have often said, she has two styles of acting: with or without the beard.

  Louise Rennison

  Two, Style, Acting

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• By the power of Steven Wright's Beard!

  Craig Ferguson

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• A good leg will fall; a straight back will stoop; a black beard will turn white; a curl'd pate will grow bald; a fair face will wither; a full eye will wax hollow: but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun, and not the moon, — for it shines bright, and never changes, but keeps his course truly.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Heart, Eye

  "William Shakespeare: The Complete Works".

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• That's a big nose," he croaked and instantly realized he shouldn't have said something so impolite. I must be light headed, e thought. But the face smiled. The teeth seemed inordinatley white against the dark beard and skin. The only one I have," he said.

  John Flanagan

  Dark, Light, White

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• i thrive best hermit style. with a beard and a pipe.

  Bjork

  Style, Hermits, Thrive

  Song: Unison, Album: Vespertine, 2001

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• My Lord, I find thy face apelike and thy form misshapen. Thy beard, moreover, is an offense against decency, resembling more closely the scabrous fir which doth decorate the hinder portion of a mongrel dog than a proper adornement for a human face. Is it possible that thy mother, seized by some wild lechery, did dally at some time past with a randy goat? -Mandorallen

  David Eddings

  Mother, Dog, Past

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• If you had half as much brains as you have beard, you would have looked before you leaped.

  Aesop

  Brain, Half, Ifs

  Aesop, Pat Ronson Stewart (1994). “Aesop's Fables”, p.39, Courier Corporation

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