Gelett Burgess - Women Quotes

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

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

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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.

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No man knoweth how another man maketh his love, for women tell not.

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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.

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Repeat not the manner of a flirtation; for lo, all the world shall hear of it, and women will taunt thee.

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It is in the blood of genius to love play for its own sake, and whether one uses one's skill on thrones or women, swords or pens, gold or fame, the game's the thing.

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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.

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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.

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