Irish Set Dancing

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

    “The rule for hospitality and Irish “help,” is, to have the same dinner every day throughout the year. At last, Mrs. O’Shaughnessy learns to cook it to a nicety, the host learns to carve it, and the guests are well served.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Never so rich a gem
    Was set in worse than gold.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one’s tongue don’t move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.”
    —Horace Walpole (1717–1797)