| Author |
Quotes |
| Agnes George de Mille | The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music. Bodies never lie. |
| Alexander Pope | Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance. |
| Anonymous | This dance of death which sounds so musically Was sure intended for the corpse de ballet. |
| Heinrich Heine | And the dancing has begun now, And the dancers whirl round gaily In the waltz's giddy mazes, And the ground beneath them trembles. |
| Heinrich Heine | Twelve dancers are dancing, and taking no rest, And closely their hands together are press'd; And soon as a dance has come to a close, Another begins, and each merrily goes. |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Merrily, merrily whirled the wheels of the dizzying dances Under the orchard-trees and down the path to the meadows; Old fold and young together, and children mingled among them. |
| James Russell Lowell | He who esteems the Virginia reel A bait to draw saints from their spiritual weal, And regards the quadrille as a far greater knavery Than crushing His African children with slavery, Since all who take part in a waltz or cotillon Are mounted for hell on the devil's own pillion, Who, as every true orthodox Christian well knows, Approaches the heart through the door of the toes. |
| Oliver Goldsmith | Alike all ages: dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze, And the gay grandsire, skill'd in gestic lore, Has frisk'd beneath the burden of threescore. |
| Thomas Gray | To brisk notes in cadence beating Glance their many-twinkling feet. |
| Thomas Moore | Dear creature!--you'd swear When her delicate feet in the dance twinkle round, That her steps are of light, that her home is the air, And she only par complaisance touches the ground. |
| John Milton | Come, knit hands, and beat the ground In a light fantastic round. |
| John Milton | Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe. |
| John Milton | Dancing in the chequer'd shade. |
| John Milton | Those who danced were thought to be quite insane by those who could not hear the music. |
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