"As a dancer, I out-Fred the nimblest Astaire." — P.G. Wodehouse
"As a dancer, I out-Fred the nimblest Astaire."
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P.G. Wodehouse
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279 Quotes by P.G. Wodehouse
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Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious.
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"After all, golf is only a game", said Millicent. Women say these things without thinking. It does not mean that…
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Golf acts as a corrective against sinful pride. I attribute the insane arrogance of the later Roman Emperors almost entirely…
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Confidence, of course is an admirable asset to a golfer, but it should be an unspoken confidence. It is perilous…
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The test of a great golfer is his ability to recover from a bad start.
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I wonder what Tommy Morris would have had to say to all this number 6-iron, number 12-iron, number 28-iron stuff.…
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Golf is the Great Mystery. Like some capricous goddess, it bestows its favours with what would appear an almost fat-headed…
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Men capable of governing empires fail to control a small white ball, which presents no difficulties whetever to others with…
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Many bad golfers marry, feeling that a wife's loving solicitude may improve their game. But they are rugged, thick-skinned men,…
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Alcohol is a misunderstood vitamin.
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Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to…
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Flowers are happy things.
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More Astaire Quotes
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one of 52 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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No dancer can watch Fred Astaire and not know that we all should have been in another business.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Astaire was not a sexual animal, but he made his partners look so extraordinarily related to him.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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I remember vividly seeing 'Tarzan' and Fred Astaire, the Chaplin films, Fred Astaire musicals, MGM, because of my mother. She…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.
— Dirk Benedict
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Fred Astaire was a more formal, trained dancer who loved waltzing and only danced with the girls.
— Leslie Caron
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We attend to his later performances as a dramatic actor with respect, but watching the nondancing, nonsinging Astaire is like…
— Fred Astaire
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I am the Fred Astaire of karate.
— Jean-Claude Van Damme
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If Fred Astaire is the Cary Grant of dance, I'm the Marlon Brando.
— Gene Kelly
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Fred Astaire represented the aristocracy, I represented the proletariat.
— Gene Kelly
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I arrived in Hollywood twenty pounds overweight and as strong as an ox. But if I put on a white…
— Gene Kelly
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I was spawned by some pretty good people in this business - Mr. Astaire, Mr. Tracy. They stopped and took…
— Robert Wagner
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When I am asked about influences, I always say I bow down to Fred Astaire, because when you look at…
— Alan Rickman
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