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  • I consider a country-dance as an emblem of marriage. Fidelity and complaisance are the principle duties of both; and those men who do not choose to dance or to marry them selves, have no business with the partners or wives of the neighbors.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Marriage Quotes , Dance Quotes
  • Dance, v.i. To leap about to the sound of tittering music, preferably with arms about your neighbor's wife or daughter. There are many kinds of dances, but all those requiring the participation of the two sexes have two characteristics in common: they are conspicuously innocent, and warmly loved by the vicious.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Dance Quotes , Daughter Quotes
  • Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Dance Quotes , Fall Quotes
  • What is a fine person or a beauteous face, Unless deportment give them decent grace; Blessed with all other requisites to please, To want the striking elegance of ease; Awkward, embarrassed, stiff, without the skill Of moving gracefully, or standing still.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Winston Churchill Quotes , Dance Quotes , Moving Quotes