Beard Culture Quotes

In our time, a beard is the one thing that a woman cannot do better than a man, or if she can her success is assured only in a circus.

I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan's look good.

About two-thirds of the face of Marx is beard, a vast solemn wooly uneventful beard that must have made all normal exercise impossible. It is not the sort of beard that happens to a man, it is a beard cultivated, cherished, and thrust patriarchally upon the world.

In the fifties, no one wore beards. In Eisenhower's day, as in the time of the Founding Fathers, all chins were smooth, while during the Civil War, beards were as common as sepsis.

One of things about beards is that, when men reach a certain age, they'd like to see if they can grow one. It's a phenomenon I understand very well. After you get over the itchy face, you go, "Oh, I don't have to shave, that's cool." And then you move into the philosophical thing- people say, "You look weird, you have a beard." And you say, "No, actually, it's weird to shave." Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.

I'm obsessed with beards. First of all, beards make you look like more of an animal. Second, I kind of like biting beards; it's a pastime of mine. And when I make out with a dude who has a beard - who are the only kinds of dudes I make out with - then my glitter gets stuck in their beards, and then no other chick will make out with them for at least three days.

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.

I'm obsessed with beards. First of all, beards make you look like more of an animal. Second, I kind of like biting beards; it's a pastime of mine.

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

No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down.

Vegetarians have wicked, shifty eyes, and laugh in a cold calculating manner. They pinch little children, steal stamps, drink water, favor beards.

If I shave, I don't have a chin anymore.

A man with a beard was always a little suspect anyway. You couldn't say you wore a beard because you liked a beard. People didn't like you for telling the truth. You had to say you had a scar so you couldn't shave.

On my Instagram, lots of people tag me in photos of just dudes with beards, and they're like, 'Oh my God, I met Chet Faker' and I'm like, 'That doesn't even look like me.'

I've just always rocked the goatee. Maybe a beard for a minute or some thick sideburns, but I've only been clean-shaven for, like, two days in my adult life.

I don't like myself without a beard.

I grew my beard out a little bit just to show that, indeed, I am a man.

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

Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.

I don't know what it is on an elemental level, but a beard in general evokes hedonism. It's a more lush personal grooming style. It's more comfortable and cozy; it's less sharp and angular and businesslike. I feel like a beard is more Hobbit-like, even though Hobbits themselves are clean-shaven.

I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.

In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.

All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.

Every director I've ever admired has a beard.

I had a beard way before it was fashionable.