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Title: What Great Men Have Said About Women
Ten Cent Pocket Series No. 77

Author: Various

Editor: Marcet Haldeman-Julius

Release Date: August 2, 2005 [EBook #16418]

Language: English

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TEN CENT POCKET SERIES NO. 77

Edited by E. Haldeman-Julius

WHAT GREAT MEN HAVE SAID ABOUT WOMEN

HALDEMAN-JULIUS COMPANY
GIRARD. KANSAS

SHAKESPEARE.

Where is any author in the world
Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?

_Love's Labour's Lost, A. 4, S. 3._

The idea of her life shall sweetly creep
Into his study of imagination;
And every lovely organ of her life
Shall come apparel'd in more precious habit,
More moving-delicate, and full of life,
Into the eye and prospect of his soul.

_Much Ado About Nothing, A. 4, S. 1._

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks,
Shall win my love.

_Taming of the Shrew, A. 4, S. 2._

Win her with gifts, if she respect not words;
Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind,
More than quick words, do move a woman's mind.

_Two Gentlemen of Verona, A. 3, S. 1._

You, that have so fair parts of woman on you,
Have too a woman's heart: which ever yet
Affected eminence, wealth, sovereignty.

_Henry VIII., A. 2, S. 3._

'Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud;
'Tis virtue that doth make them most admired.

_Henry VI., Pt. 3, A. 1, S. 4._

From woman's eyes this doctrine I derive;
They sparkle still the right Promethean fire;
They are the books, the arts, the academes,
That show, contain, and nourish all the world.

_Love's Labour's Lost, A. 4, S. 3._

Her voice was ever soft,
Gentle, and low: an excellent thing in woman.

_King Lear, A. 5, S. 3._

Have you not heard it sai