Gentleman Dancing Master

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

“For I must have my lovely lady soon,
I am a gentleman in a dustcoat trying.”
—John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)

“My Mama has made bread
and Grampaw has come
and everybody is drunk
and dancing in the kitchen”
—Lucille Clifton (b. 1936)

“One of my playmates, who was apprenticed to a printer, and was somewhat of a wag, asked his master one afternoon if he might go a-fishing, and his master consented. He was gone three months. When he came back, he said that he had been to the Grand Banks, and went to setting type again as if only an afternoon had intervened.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)