Burgess

Burgess may refer to:

  • Burgess (title), a political official or representative
  • Burgess (surname), an English family name
  • Burgess Company, an American airplane manufacturer
  • Burgess GAA, an athletic club in Ireland

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Famous quotes containing the word burgess:

    Violence among young people ... is an aspect of their desire to create. They don’t know how to use their energy creatively so they do the opposite and destroy.
    —Anthony Burgess (b. 1917)

    Ah, yes, I wrote the “Purple Cow”—
    I’m sorry, now, I wrote it!
    But I can tell you, anyhow,
    I’ll kill you if you quote it.
    —Gelett Burgess (1866–1951)

    Do they merit vitriol, even a drop of it? Yes, because they corrupt the young, persuading them that the mature world, which produced Beethoven and Schweitzer, sets an even higher value on the transient anodynes of youth than does youth itself.... They are the Hollow Men. They are electronic lice.
    —Anthony Burgess (b. 1917)