Irish Set Dancing

Famous quotes containing the words irish, set and/or dancing:

    I was the rector’s son, born to the anglican order,
    Banned for ever from the candles of the Irish poor;
    The Chichesters knelt in marble at the end of a transept
    With ruffs about their necks, their portion sure.
    Louis MacNeice (1907–1963)

    He is a friend of all just men and a lover of the right; and he knows more than how to talk about the right—he knows how to set it forward in the face of its enemies.
    Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

    Carmen: You’re cute. I like you.
    Philip Marlowe: What you see is nothing. I got a Balinese dancing girl tattooed across my chest.
    William Faulkner (1897–1962)