109 Quotes by Isadora Duncan

It has taken me years of struggle, hard work and research to learn to make one simple gesture, and I know enough about the art of writing to realize that it would take as many years of concentrated effort to write one simple, beautiful sentence.

We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage.

The finest inheritance you can give to a child is to allow it to make its own way, completely on its own feet.

People don't live nowadays: they get about ten percent out of life.

Most human beings today waste some 25 to 30 years of their lives before they break through the actual and conventional lies which surround them.

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.

So that ends my first experience of matrimony, which I always thought a highly over-rated performance.