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)
“The spiral is a spiritualized circle. In the spiral form, the circle, uncoiled, unwound, has ceased to be vicious; it has been set free.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“Johann Strauss—Forty couples dancing ... one by one they slip from the hall ... sounds of kisses ... the lights go out”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)