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Dancing Quotes - Page 23

Hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig.

William Shakespeare (2016). “Much Ado About Nothing: Revised Edition”, p.219, Bloomsbury Publishing

You have dancing shoes with nimble soles. I have a soul of lead.

William Shakespeare (2001). “The Merchant of Venice”, p.205, Classic Books Company

For you and I are past our dancing days.

'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 1, sc. 5, l. [35]

I saw myself dancing alone, always alone.

Virginia C. Andrews (2004). “Flowers in the Attic”

What may we expect of people who work all day and dance all night? After a while they will be thrown on society nervous, exhausted imbeciles.

Thomas De Witt Talmage (1892). “Trumpet Blasts, Or Mountain-top Views of Life: Comprising the Most Earnest Reasonings, Delightful Narratives, Poetic Imageries, Striking Similies, Fearless Denunciations of Wrong and Inspiring Appeals for the Right, that During His Whole Phenonomenal Career Have Been Given to the World”

The greater the fool the better the dancer.

Theodore Edward Hook, Richard Harris Dalton Barham (1849). “The Life and Remains of Theodore Edward Hook: Life”, p.128

Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance

T.S. Eliot (2015). “The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems”, p.181, Faber & Faber

There is pain and sacrifice in everyone's world. That's why, when I was dancing, I had no pain.

"Ballerina of the Century". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. December 16, 1990.