Black Beard

Famous quotes containing the words black and/or beard:

    Long sibilant-muscled trees
    Were lifting up, the black poplars.
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.
    Rebecca West (1892–1983)