“What of his beard? Are you not of Homer's opinion, who says Youth is most charming when the beard first appears?”
“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.”
“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.”
“His beard might once have reached to his waist, but his waist had grown off and left his beard high and dry.”
“Toward the end of February 1954, James Beard was at work in his Greenwich Village kitchen doing what he most loved to do: cooking delicious meals.”
“Are you out of your princely wits?"What's he? Let me have his beard sawed off and his eyebrows filed more civil!”