Gentleman Dancing Master

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

    “... no gentleman lies, on any occasion, with unmixed pleasure. He feels, rather, as if he had put on rags.”
    —Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)

    “Not dancing but nearly risen
    Through barnlike, theatrelike houses
    On the winds of the buck and wing.”
    —James Dickey (b. 1923)

    “Man was Cadaver’s masker, the harnessing mantle,
    Windily master of man was the rotten fathom,
    My ghost in his metal neptune
    Forged in man’s mineral.
    This was the god of beginning in the intricate seawhirl,
    And my images roared and rose on heaven’s hill.”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)