You will never get on in politics, my dear, with that hair.

-Viscountess ne¤  e Langhorne
Attributed remark addressed to Shirley Williams.

   When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of her experience.

-Austin, Mary Hunter
  The Land of Little Rain,'The Basket Maker'.

Marie Hamilton's to the kirk gane, Wi'ribbons in her hair; The king thought mair o'Marie Hamilton Than ony that were there.

-Ballads
'Marie Hamilton', opening lines.

'O I forbid you, maidens a', That wear gowd on your hair, To come or gae by Carterhaugh, For youngTam Lin is there. 'There's nane that gaes by Carterhaugh, But they leave him a wad. Either their rings or green mantles, Or else their maidenhead.' Janet has kilted her green kirtle A little aboon her knee, And she has braided her yellow hair A little aboon her bree, And she's awa'to Carterhaugh As fast as she can hie.

-Ballads
'Tam Lin', opening stanzas.

O waly, waly up the bank, And waly, waly doun the brae, And waly, waly yon burn-side Where I and my love wont to gae. I lean'd my back unto an aik, I thocht it was a trustie tree; But first it bow'd, and syne it brakeö Sae my true love did lichtlie me. O waly, waly, gin love be bonnie A little time while it is new; But when 'tis auld it waxeth cauld And fades awa' like morning dew. O wherefore should I busk my heid, O wherefore should I kame my hair? For my true love has me forsook, And says he'll never lo'e me mair.

-Ballads
pre-1566  'Waly, Waly', opening stanzas.

   Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves'eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. Thy teeth are like a flockof sheep that are evenshorn, whichcameup from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them. Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks. Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men. Thy two breasts are liketwo young roesthat aretwins, which feed among the lilies.Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me to the mountain of myrrh, and tothehill of frankincense.Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Song of Solomon 4:1^7.

   If a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him. But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair isgiven her for a covering.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Corinthians11:15.

O thou who passest through our valleys in Thy strength, curb thy fierce steeds, ally the heat That flames from their large nostrils! thou,O Summer, Beneath our oaks hast slept while we beheld With joy thy ruddy limbs and flourishing hair.

-Blake,William
  Poetical Sketches,'To Summer'.

   Straightway I was 'ware So weeping, how a mystic shape did move Behind me, and drew me backward by the hair And a voice said in mastery while I strove† 'Guess now who holds thee!'ö'Death', I said, but there The silver answer rang† 'Not Death, but Love.'

-Browning, Elizabeth ne¤  e Barrett
  Poems,'Sonnets from the Portuguese', sonnet1.

Dear, dead woman, with suchhair, tooöwhat's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms? I feel chilly and grown old.

-Browning, Robert
  Men and Women,'A  Toccata of Galuppi's'.

As for the grass, it grewas scant as hair in leprosyöthin dried blades pricked the mud which underneath looked kneaded up with blood. One stiff blind horse, his every bone a-stare, stood stupefied.

-Browning, Robert
  Men and Women,'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'.

He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skilled in analytic. He could distinguish and divide A hair 'twixt south and southwest side.

-Butler, Samuel
  Hudibras, pt.1, canto1, l.65^8.

'You are old, Father William,'the young man said, 'And your hair has become very white; And yet you incessantly stand on your headö Do you think, at your age, it is right?' 'In my youth,' Father William replied to his son, 'I feared it might injure the brain; But now that I'm perfectly sure I have none, Why, I do it again and again.' See Southey 805:96.

-Dodgson
  Alice's  Adventures in Wonderland, ch.5, 'Advice from a Caterpillar'.

'Tis the voice of the lobster; I heard him declare, 'You have baked me too brown, I must sugar my hair.'

-Dodgson
  Alice's  Adventures in Wonderland, ch.10,'The Lobster- Quadrille'.

Who is the smiling stranger With hair as white as gin, What is he doing with the children And who could have let him in?

-Causley, Charles
  'Innocent's Song'.

When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say,'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'

-Chekhov, Anton
  Uncle Vanya, act 3.

And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.

-Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
  'Kubla Khan'.

Nobody knowshow towrite letters; and yet onehas 'em, one does not know why.öThey serve one to pin up one's hair.

-Congreve,William
  The Way of the World, act 2, sc.5.

: Madam, do you pin up your hair with all your letters? : Only with those in verse, Mr Witwoud. I never pin up my hair with prose.

-Congreve,William
  WITWOUDMILLAMANT1700  The Way of the World, act 2, sc.5.

Dead echoes! But I knew her body there, Time like a serpent down her shoulder, dark, And space, an eaglet's wing, laid on her hair.

-Crane, (Harold) Hart
  The Bridge,'The River'.