1,434 Quotes About Dance

Dance in the most perishable of the arts. Ballets are forgotten, ballerinas retire, choreographers die--and what remains of that glorious production which so excited us a decade ago, a year ago, or even last night?

Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different.

Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward.

It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind.

To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love.

The practice. Muscles do not interpret right or wrong just familiarity. Through repetition we begin to make what is unfamiliar our own

When the correct technique feels wrong, different and confusing there is change and grow

When I was young, and addicted to reading, I had heard about dancing on the points of metaphysical needles; but, by mixing in the world, I found the points of political needles finer and sharper than the metaphysical ones.

Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.