Gentleman Dancing Master

Famous quotes containing the words gentleman, dancing and/or master:

    “If the aristocrat is only valid in fashionable circles, and not with truckmen, he will never be a leader in fashion; and if the man of the people cannot speak on equal terms with the gentleman, so that the gentleman shall perceive that he is already really of his own order, he is not to be feared.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Interpreting the dance: young women in white dancing in a ring can only be virgins; old women in black dancing in a ring can only be witches; but middle-aged women in colors, square dancing...?”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “Their school a crowd, his master solitude;
    Through Jonathan Swift’s dark grove he passed, and there
    Plucked bitter wisdom that enriched his blood.”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)