Part 1 (1/2)

What Great Men Have Said About Women.

by Various.

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 said full oft, A woman's nay doth stand for naught?

_The Pa.s.sionate Pilgrim, Line 14._