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Gelett Burgess was an American poet born on January 30, 1866, and died on September 18, 1951. His poetry is known for its unique style and sense of humor, which had a profound impact on American literature in the early 20th century.

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Famous Gelett Burgess Quotes

“Beware of a woman who does not sign her name to her letters. She will bear watching. Aye, she has a past.”

Women Letters Email Signature

Author:Gelett Burgess

“Hurry not a woman's favor; neither forcer her hastily to surrender to thee. For she goeth into love as she goeth into the waters at the seashore; first a hand and then a lip goeth she in by littles. She diveth not, she leapeth not from the pier; but by gentle shocks and cries of protest she entereth slowly; yet when the waters of love encompass her, then she is supported. She swimmeth in her joy; she floateth on the tide of happiness.”

Love Firsts Littles Hands Joy Women Water Cry Dating Lips Favors Surrender Thee Gentle Shock Protest Tides Seashore Piers Goeth

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“Woo her not till thou hast seen her mother, for a score of years worketh wonders.”

Years Mother Women Wonder Score Wonder Woman

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“The fear of women is the beginning of knowledge.”

Women

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“Beware of a woman who signeth not her name to her letters; she will bear watching, aye, she hath a past.”

Past Names Women Bears Letters

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“Son, heed my instruction, and apply thyself to know women; let thine eyes observe her when she is with another, for what she doeth with him, she will do with thee, also.”

Knows Eye Women Son Thee Instruction Thyself Heed

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“My son, beware of a plain damsel who charmeth thee, for she needeth much wile, and useth diverse weapons.”

Women Son Weapons Thee My Son Diverse

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“The world is full of women, and the women full of wile; so that a man, if he goeth not warily withal, shall surely fall a prey thereunto.”

Ifs Men World Fall Women Prey Goeth

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“A reproof entereth more into a woman of sense than an hundred compliments into a fool.”

Women Fool Hundred Compliment Reproof

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“If thou makest a statement concerning women, lo, she shall immediately try to disprove it straightway. She goeth by contraries.”

Ifs Trying Women Contrary Statements Goeth Makest

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“Seek one woman whom thou canst trust, and to her who lovest thee best, tell thy secrets. She will deliver thee from the hands of strange women, she will expose their craft; and of her who flattereth thee, will she make known the reason.”

Reason Hands Women Secret Known Strange Crafts Thee One Woman

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“Some women are to be captured by storm and some taken by siege; yet if there be not a traitor in her heart that shall deliver up the garrison, thou shalt not prevail over her.”

Ifs Heart Women Taken Storm Captured Traitor Siege

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“Can a woman entertain a man and a pet at the same time? I say unto thee, one of the twain shall suffer jealousy.”

Men Suffering Women Thee Pet

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“As the cat lapses into savagery by night, and barbarously explores the dark, so primal and titanic is a woman with the love madness.”

Night Women Dark Cat Madness Primal Lapses Savagery

Book:The Romance of the Commonplace

Source: The Romance of the Commonplace

“Most women have all other women as adversaries; most men have all other men as their allies.”

Men Women Allies Adversaries

Book:The Romance of the Commonplace

Source: The Romance of the Commonplace

About the Author

Born: January 30, 1866
Died: September 18, 1951
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 59

Books & Sources

The Romance of the CommonplaceRelated source material

Look Eleven Years YoungerRelated source material

The Burgess Nonsense Book: Being a Complete Collection of the Humorous Masterpieces of Gelett Burgess ...Related source material

The Master of Mysteries: Being an Account of the Problems Solved by Astro, Seer of Secrets, and His Love Affair With Valeska Wynne His AssistantRelated source material

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