Gelett Burgess Women Quotations

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.

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

The fear of women is the beginning of knowledge.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.