Dancing Quotes
These are some of the best 'Dancing' quotations and sayings.
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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.
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A merry, dancing, drinking, laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time.
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All the gestures of children are graceful ; the reign of distortion and unnatural attitudes commences with the introduction of the dancing master.
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Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe.
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Dancing is an amusement which has been discouraged in our country by many of the best people, and not without some reason. - It is associated in their mind with balls; and this is one of the worst forms of social pleasure. - The time consumed in preparing for a ball, the waste of thought upon it, the extravagance of dress, the late hours, the exhaustion of strength, the exposure of health, and the languor of the succeeding day - these and other evils connected with this amusement, are strong reasons for banishing it from the community. - But dancing ought not, therefore, to be proscribed. - On the contrary, balls should be discouraged for this among other reasons, that dancing, instead of being a rare pleasure, requiring elaborate preparation, may become an everyday amusement, and mix with our common intercourse. - This exercise is among the most healthful. - The body as well as the mind feels its gladdening influence. - No amusement seems more to have a foundation in our nature. - The animation of youth overflows spontaneously in harmonious movements. - The true idea of dancing entitles it to favor. - Its end is to realize perfect grace in motion; and who does not know that a sense of the graceful is one of the higher faculties of our nature.
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Learn to dance, not so much for the sake of 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.
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No man in his senses will dance.
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On with the dance! Let joy be unconfin'd; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet.
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The chief benefit of dancing is to learn one how to sit still.
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The gymnasium of running, walking on stilts, climbing, etc., steels and makes hardy single powers and muscles, but dancing, like a corporeal poesy, embellishes, exercises, and equalizes all the muscles at once.
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They who love dancing too much seem to have more brains in their feet than their head, and think to play the fool with reason.
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Those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.
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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.
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Where wildness and disorder are visible in the dance, there Satan, death, and all kinds of mischief are likewise on the floor.
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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.
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