Gentleman Dancing Master

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

    “Eighteen convicts being hanged in one day ... a woman was crying an account of their execution. A gentleman asked her why she said nineteen, when there had been but eighteen hanged? She replied, “Sir, I did not know you had been reprieved.””
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

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

    “In the long run, only woman remains true to mankind’s foremost mission. Whatever she achieves, she achieves through herself, and alone. Man’s master is the—public.”
    —Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)