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Lord! I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face: I had rather lie in the woollen. William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing II i 31
You can’t do comedy with a beard. Alexei Sayle
I will never shave off my beard and moustache. I did once, for charity, but my wife said, ‘Good grief, how awful, you look like an American car with all the chrome removed.’ Rolf Harris
I never had long hair before I got busted. I never had a beard before I got busted. Charles Manson
The scissors cut the long-grown hair; the razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, bug-eyed, I stare at the forgotten boy I was. John Updike
It was a break from the past for a clergyman to abandon his clean-shaven appearance which was the norm for late medieval priesthood; with Luther providing a precedent [during his exile period], virtually all the continental reformers had deliberately grown beards as a mark of their rejection of the old church, and the significance of clerical beards as an aggressive anti-Catholic gesture was well recognised in mid-Tudor England. Diarmaid MacCulloch, Thomas Cranmer: A Life
Denise: And he’s always got bits of food stuck in his beard.
Barbara: Well he never has a wash. The only time he has a wash is when he goes to the doctors. The Royle Family s2e5: Barbara Finally Has Enough, BBC 1999