Famous quotes containing the words irish, set and/or dancing:
“But Irish had an old soul, you might say. He was a man with a great future behind him, already.”
—Angela Carter (19401992)
“Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden,what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked varlets would civilized men appear!”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
“I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if ones tongue dont move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.”
—Horace Walpole (17171797)