Dancing Quotes

Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.

Lord Chesterfield

Kiss a lover, Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure. Face your life, It's pain, It's pleasure, Leave no path untaken.

Neil Gaiman

I am not the first straight dancer or the last.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.

Mark Twain

I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases

Mark Twain, 1862

Dancing with abandon, turning a tango into a fertility rite.

Marshall Pugh

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

George Bernard Shaw

Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

Christopher Morley

Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take no food except iced oysters and champagne. If people ask me when I began to dance, I reply, In my mother's womb, probably as a result of the oysters and champagne - the food of Aphrodite.

Isadora Duncan

When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that

William Shakespeare

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

Kurt Vonnegut

I just put my feet in the air and move them around.

Fred Astaire

Dancing begets warmth, which is the parent of wantonness. It is, Sir, the great grandfather of cuckoldom.

Henry Fielding

Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.

Don Miguel Ruiz