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Quotes about dancing

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Nobody cares if you can’t dance well. Just get up and dance.
Dave Barryborn 1947
- Dave Barry
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950
No sane man will dance.
Cicero107–43 BC
If people stand in a circle long enough, they’ll eventually begin to dance.
George Carlin1937–2008Napalm and Silly Putty (2001)
- Comedy
Almost no one dances sober, unless he is insane.
Cicero107–43 BCPro Murena (Chapter VI, sec. 13)
- Comedy
People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.
Edgar Degas1834–1917Ambroise Vollard, Degas: An Intimate Portrait (1927), “As He Grows Old”, p. 87
- Art
I have no desire to prove anything by it. I have never used it as an outlet or a means of expressing myself. I just dance.
Fred Astaire1899–1987from Astaire’s autobiography Steps in Time, 1959, p. 325.
I don’t make love by kissing, I make love by dancing.
Fred Astaire1899–1987Said to Henry Ephron; quoted in Henry Ephron, We Thought We Could Do Anything (1977)
- Love
Will you walk a little faster?” said a whiting to a snail,
“There’s a porpoise close behind us, and he’s treading on my tail.
See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance!
They are waiting on the shingle⁠—will you come and join the dance?
Will you, won’t you, will you, won’t you, will you join the dance?
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter XIn context
- Animals
To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love
Jane Austen1775–1817Pride and Prejudice (1813), Volume I, Chapter IIIIn context
- Love
I should only believe in a God that would know how to dance.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883–1885), First Part, VIIIn context
- God
O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
W. B. Yeats1865–1939Among School Children (1927)In context
- Art
They dinèd on mince, and slices of quince,
Which they ate with a runcible spoon;
And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon,
The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon.
Edward Lear1812–1888The Owl and the Pussy-Cat (1870)In context
- Food
When you do dance, I wish you
A wave o’ th’ sea, that you might ever do
Nothing but that
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Winter’s Tale (c. 1611), Act IV, Scene IV, spoken by FlorizelIn context
- Love