A man without a moustache is like a cup of tea without sugar. – English Proverb
He is a fool that kisseth the maid when he may kiss the mistress. – English Proverb

A man without a moustache is like a cup of tea without sugar. – English Proverb
He is a fool that kisseth the maid when he may kiss the mistress. – English Proverb
But he wore a moustache—a shaggy moustache too: nothing in the meek and merciful way, but quite in the fierce and scornful style: the regular Satanic sort of thing—and he wore, besides, a vast quantity of unbrushed hair. – Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, 1843
A particular face shows determination merely by the turn of the moustache; but the moustache is robbed of all its expression unless it be worn by itself. Accompanied by the other parts of the beard, it loses its originality, it ceases to be a marked characteristic of will or temper. – Charles Blanc, Art in Ornament and Dress, 1875