William Shakespeare Beard Quotations

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.

QUINCE Francis Flute, the bellows-mender. FLUTE Here, Peter Quince. QUINCE Flute, you must take Thisby on you. FLUTE What is Thisby? a wandering knight? QUINCE It is the lady that Pyramus must love. FLUTE Nay, faith, let me not play a woman; I have a beard coming.

If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me and breaths that I defied not

I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face: I had rather lie in the woolen