Beard

Hindu Sadhu with a goatee and moustache

A beard is the hair that grows on a human chin, cheeks, neck and the area above the upper lip.

Sourced

• BEARD, n. The hair that is commonly cut off by those who justly execrate the absurd Chinese custom of shaving the head.
  • Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Dictionary (1906); republished as The Devil's Dictionary (1911).

• Many were the disguises he assumed. At one time he even meditated cutting off his mustaches ; — that would have been "the unkindest cut of all.”
  • Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Romance and Reality (1831), Vol.III Chapter 14

• Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
  • Leviticus, 19:27

• It’s always the same: if someone is against convention his only way of attacking it is by creating another convention, so that when most people are clean-shaven he grows a beard, and when beards are worn he shaves his off. He’s merely changing from one convention to another.
  • Jorge Luis Borges in conversation with Rita Guibert, 1968 (Jorge Luis Borges: Conversations, pps. 51-52.)

• He that hath a beard is more than a youth; and he that hath no beard is less than a man.
  • Beatrice, from William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, act ii, scene i

Blackadder

• Edmund: [Referring to The Bearded Lady] Great. We've only got one act, and she shaved her beard off!
  • Blackadder

• [Lord Flasheart nods to Baldrick, who's dressed as a bridesmaid.]
  Flasheart: Thanks, Bridesmaid! Like the beard! Gives me something to hang on to!
  • Blackadder II

• Baldrick: Yeah, and I could be played by some tiny tit in a beard.
  • Blackadder III

• Narrator: [introducing Baldrick] The other was the sole descendant of an unfortunate meeting between a pig-farmer and a bearded lady. History has, quite rightly, forgotten his name.
  • Blackadder