“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.”
Source: Cannery Row
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Opium (1929)
“And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.”
Source: I Capture the Castle

Song lyrics, Another Side of Bob Dylan (1964), Motorpsycho Nightmare
“If you can't sleep with your own wife wearing a false beard, what can you do?”
Source: Where There's a Will: Thoughts on the Good Life (2003), Ch. 20 : Law or Justice

Cosmopolitan, January 1999, on embarrassing dates.