Famous quotes containing the words irish, dance and/or masters:
“The Irish are a fair people; they never speak well of one another.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“All the old supports going, gone, this man reaches out a hand to steady himself on a ledge of rough brick that is warm in the sun: his hand feeds him messages of solidity, but his mind messages of destruction, for this breathing substance, made of earth, will be a dance of atoms, he knows it, his intelligence tells him so: there will soon be war, he is in the middle of war, where he stands will be a waste, mounds of rubble, and this solid earthy substance will be a film of dust on ruins.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)
“Degenerate sons and daughters,
Life is too strong for you—
It takes life to love Life.”
—Edgar Lee Masters (1869–1950)