As Plato, the dangerous beguiler, said: the best…

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

Safety razors make it hard to grow beards in America: America would be a better place if there were a few bearded, savage, terrible…

— Lewis Mumford

“His beard was all colors, a grove of trees in autumn, deep brown and fire-orange and wine-red, an untrimmed tangle across the lower half…

— Neil Gaiman

“If there was wisdom in beards, all goats would be prophets.”

— Armenian Proverb

If bumblebee leavings and stump paste are so good for you, why can't any of those guys (in the health stores) grow full beards?

— Calvin Trillin

When I walk around on the street and someone comes up to me, I have just as many full-grown men with large beards in…

— Andy Biersack

“Button-holes! there is something lively in the very idea of 'em - and trust me, when I get amongst 'em - you gentry with…

— Laurence Sterne

There is great truth in Alphonse Karr's remark that modern men are ugly because they do not wear their beards.

— George Augustus Henry Sala

Some men look great unshaven; others just look like they forgot to shave. Beards and mustaches can be really distinctive if you go for…

— Donatella Versace

I'm not a fan of just huge beards.

— Nikola Vucevic

“When women grow old and cease being women, they get beards on their chins; I wonder what men get when they grow old and…

— August Strindberg

“You can't keep putting things off by grilling beards”

— Vic Reeves

“The Disco Group ABBA”: They were beards and teeth and natural breasts and whiteness. I”

— Chuck Klosterman

It's a weird thing, beards now. I'll be in east London, and lads come up to me: 'Yo man, what beard oil do you…

— Rag'n'Bone Man

Everybody's got a story on their beards. I guess it's just a way of finding common ground with people you otherwise might not know.

— Chris Stapleton