Jargon is part ceremonial robe, part false beard.

A beard is something that is almost like a mirror to the viewer. When someone sees you wearing a beard, they're seeing something in…

— Mohsin Hamid

“Nay! Faith, let me not play a woman! I have a beard coming!”

— William Shakespeare

The barman sidled toward them out of a back room. He was a grump-looking old man with a great deal of a long gray…

— Anonymous

I was born with a beard. We're quite hairy down in Latin America. We don't have to use sponges when we wash dishes. We…

— Devendra Banhart

“beard framing a face that had started to show his age, weathered and lined from years”

— Richard Allibone

If I can play, and change the mind of one person about being a Muslim player and having a beard, then I'll feel as…

— Moeen Ali

“Pride is like a beard. It is just keeps growing; the solution?- Shave it every day.”

— George Ong

“I have no idea why this is. I’m sure somebody with a beard and too much time on their hands would say it has…

— Nick Spalding

They were bullyin' him, Hermione, 'cause he's so small!" said Hagrid. "Small?" said Hermione. "Small?" "Hermione, I couldn't leave him," said Hagrid, tears now…

— Anonymous

“Allow me," said the elf, proffering Gimlet's beard to Frito, who was now sneezing uncontrollably.”

— The Harvard Lampoon

Never insult a mans beard, you either get thunder or lightning

— Si Robertson

If we didn't live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I've no doubt;…

— Virginia Woolf

If I had to choose between the two ways of approaching the deity, I should prefer the existential relational way, to the abstract philosophical…

— Frank Moore Cross

“Shave that Moses beard and you might have better luck. Women don’t want to kiss carpet, you know.”

— Kody Keplinger

If Elmore Leonard met Jim Thompson down a dark alley at midnight they might emerge a week later with thick beards, bloodshot eyes and…

— Eoin Colfer