Age Quote by Alexander Pope

Come now, what masques, what dances shall we have To wear away this long age of three hours Between our after-supper and bedtime?

— William Shakespeare

“It has been ages since the last time you enjoyed the night more than what you enjoy your overcoat. Then you would dance the…

— Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris

“Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chased old age away; Who would not scorn what housewife's…

— Alexander Pope

“Empires die, like all of us dancers in the strobe-lit dark. See how the light needs shadows. Look: wrinkles spread like mildew over our…

— David Mitchell

The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.

— Martha Graham

But shall we wear these glories for a day? Or shall they last, and we rejoice in them?

— William Shakespeare

Where wildness and disorder are visible in the dance, there Satan, death and all kinds of mischief are likewise upon the floor. For this…

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

See with your soul and not your eyes because to dance with the beasts you must penetrate their disguise.

— Anonymous

Now I know I'm not a saint, I been a sinner all my life, I ain't tryin to hide my flaws I'd rather keep…

— Cage The Elephant

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the…

— Judith Viorst

Dancing of late years has been degraded to the narrow limits and low professionalism of mere mechanical proficiency, associated with the most frivolous... phases…

— Ruth St. Denis

The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away.

— Ramakrishna