Birmingham Royal Ballet/dancers

Famous quotes containing the words royal, ballet and/or dancers:

    “a highly respectable gondolier,
    Who promised the Royal babe to rear
    And teach him the trade of a timoneer
    With his own beloved brattling.”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he’ll escape.”
    —W.H. (Wystan Hugh)

    “The dancers crowded about him
    And many a sweet thing said,
    And a young man brought him red wine
    And a young girl white bread.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)