English Country Dances

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

    “A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.”
    —Seventeenth-century English proverb, collected in Outlandish Proverbs, George Herbert (1640)

    “The filth and noise of the crowded streets soon destroy the elasticity of health which belongs to the country boy.”
    —Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)

    “I tell you the dances we had were really enough,
    your hands on my breast and all that sort of stuff.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)