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| Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?. |
| Beards |
| How many cowards wear yet upon their chins The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars! Shakespeare.—Merchant of Venice, Act III. Scene 2. (Bassanio to himself.) | 1 |
| Ambiguous things that ape Goats in their visage, women in their shape. Byron.—The Waltz. | 2 |
| What a beard hast thou got! thou has got more hair on thy chin than Dobbin my phill-horse has on his tail. Shakespeare.—Merchant of Venice, Act II. Scene 2. (Gobo to his Son.) | 3 |
| 1. His beard was grizzly? no. 2. It was, as I have seen it in his life, A sable silver’d. Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 2. (Hamlet and Horatio.) | 4 |
| Such a beard as youth gone out Had left in ashes. Tennyson.—Idylls of the King, Vivien. | 5 |
| So much a clown in gait and laugh, He wanted but a scrip and staff; And such a beard as hung in candles Down to Diogenes’s sandals, And planted all his chin thick, Like him a dirty cynic. Cawthorne.—Birth and Education of Genius. | 6 |
| A beard like an artichoke, with dry shrivelled jaws. Sheridan.—The Duenna, Act III. Scene 7. | 7 |
| His beard as any sow or fox was red, And thereto broad, as though it were a spade. Chaucer.—Prol. to the Canterbury Tales, Line 554. | 8 |
| Preferring sense from chin that’s bare, To nonsense throned in whisker’d hair. Green.—The Spleen, Line 750. | 9 |
| And there he lies with a great beard, like a Russian bear upon a drift of snow. Congreve.—The Double Dealer, Act III. Scene 5. | 10 |
| Sir, you have the most insinuating manner, but indeed you should get rid of that odious beard—one might as well kiss a hedgehog. Sheridan.—The Duenna, Act II. Scene 2. | 11 |
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