Irish Set Dancing

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

    The Irish are a fair people; they never speak well of one another.
    Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    But now I see I was not plucked for naught,
    And after in life’s vase
    Of glass set while I might survive,
    But by a kind hand brought
    Alive
    To a strange place.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    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)