English Country Dances

Famous quotes containing the words english, country and/or dances:

    The English Writers of Tragedy are possessed with a Notion, that when they represent a virtuous or innocent Person in Distress, they ought not to leave him till they have delivered him out of his Troubles, or made him triumph over his Enemies.
    Joseph Addison (1672–1719)

    Don: I’m not going near that country club.
    Wick: Why not?
    Don: They’re all a bunch of hypocrites. I don’t like to be whispered about—”Look who’s here from New York, the Birnam brothers. Or rather the nurse and the invalid.”
    Billy Wilder (b. 1906)

    Now I am light, now I fly, now I see myself beneath myself, now a god dances through me.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)