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Dancing with abandon, turning a tango into a fertility rite
Marshall Pugh (b.1925) British journalist, author.
I just put my feet in the air and move them around.
Fred Astaire (1899-1987) American dancer.
Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.
Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) English statesman, man of letters to his son.
Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it’s the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.
Christopher Morley (1890-1957) American novelist, journalist.
These sort of boobies think that people come to balls to do nothing but dance; whereas everyone knows that the real business of balls is either to look out for a wife, to look after a wife, or to look after somebody else’s wife.
R.S. Surtees (1803-1865) English novelist.
How inimita by graceful children are in general – before they learn to dance.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) English Poet.
The greater the fool the better the dancer.
Theodore Hook (1788-1841) English novelist, wit.
The body never lies.
Martha Graham ( b.1894) American dancer, choreographer.
Ballet is the ectoplasm of music.
Russell Green.
The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc, steels and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.
Richter.
Those move easiest, who have learned to dance.
Pope.
A merry, dancing, drinking, laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time.
Dryden.
A sense of the graceful is one of the higher faculties of our nature.
Channing.
The chief benefit of dancing is to learn one how to sit still.
Johnson.
Learn to dance, not so much for the sake to dancing, as for coming into a room and presenting yourself genteelly and gracefully. Women, whom you ought to endeavor to please, cannot forgive a vulgar and awkward air and gestures.
Chesterfield.
In ancient times dancing as a religious service, was before and to the Lord; in modern days it is too often a dissipating amusement for and to the devil.
A ballroom is nothing more or less than a great market place of beauty. For my part, were I a buyer, I should like making my purchases in a less public mart.
Bulwer.
You may be invited to a ball or dinner because you dance or tell a good story, but no one since the time of Queen Elizabeth has been made a cabinet minister or a lord chancellor for such reasons.
E.Pierrepont.
Well was it said, by a man of sagacity, that dancing was a sort of privileged and reputable folly, and that the best way to be convinced of this was to close the ears and judge of it by the eyes alone.
Gotthold.
For children and youth, dancing in the parlor or on the green may be a very pleasant and healthful amusement, but when we see older people dancing, we are ready to ask with the Chinese, “Why don’t you have your servants do it for you?”
All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.
Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Where wildness and disorder are visible in the dance, there Satan, death, and all kinds of mischief are likewise on the floor.
Gotthold.
Marshall Pugh (b.1925) British journalist, author.
I just put my feet in the air and move them around.
Fred Astaire (1899-1987) American dancer.
Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.
Lord Chesterfield (1694-1773) English statesman, man of letters to his son.
Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it’s the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.
Christopher Morley (1890-1957) American novelist, journalist.
These sort of boobies think that people come to balls to do nothing but dance; whereas everyone knows that the real business of balls is either to look out for a wife, to look after a wife, or to look after somebody else’s wife.
R.S. Surtees (1803-1865) English novelist.
How inimita by graceful children are in general – before they learn to dance.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) English Poet.
The greater the fool the better the dancer.
Theodore Hook (1788-1841) English novelist, wit.
The body never lies.
Martha Graham ( b.1894) American dancer, choreographer.
Ballet is the ectoplasm of music.
Russell Green.
The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc, steels and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.
Richter.
Those move easiest, who have learned to dance.
Pope.
A merry, dancing, drinking, laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time.
Dryden.
A sense of the graceful is one of the higher faculties of our nature.
Channing.
The chief benefit of dancing is to learn one how to sit still.
Johnson.
Learn to dance, not so much for the sake to dancing, as for coming into a room and presenting yourself genteelly and gracefully. Women, whom you ought to endeavor to please, cannot forgive a vulgar and awkward air and gestures.
Chesterfield.
In ancient times dancing as a religious service, was before and to the Lord; in modern days it is too often a dissipating amusement for and to the devil.
A ballroom is nothing more or less than a great market place of beauty. For my part, were I a buyer, I should like making my purchases in a less public mart.
Bulwer.
You may be invited to a ball or dinner because you dance or tell a good story, but no one since the time of Queen Elizabeth has been made a cabinet minister or a lord chancellor for such reasons.
E.Pierrepont.
Well was it said, by a man of sagacity, that dancing was a sort of privileged and reputable folly, and that the best way to be convinced of this was to close the ears and judge of it by the eyes alone.
Gotthold.
For children and youth, dancing in the parlor or on the green may be a very pleasant and healthful amusement, but when we see older people dancing, we are ready to ask with the Chinese, “Why don’t you have your servants do it for you?”
All the gestures of children are graceful; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.
Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Where wildness and disorder are visible in the dance, there Satan, death, and all kinds of mischief are likewise on the floor.
Gotthold.
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