These are some of our all-time favourite dance quotes. If you have a favourite not listed here we’d love to hear from you. Write to us at [email protected].
Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.
- Kurt Vonnegut
For the good are always the merry
Save by an evil chance
And the merry love the fiddle
And the merry love to dance.
- William Butler Yeats, The Fiddler of Dooney
The one thing that can solve most of our problems is dancing. Any problem in the world can be solved by dancing.
- James Brown
There are short-cuts to happiness, and dancing is one of them.
- Vicki Baum
We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance.
- Japanese Proverb
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.
- Dave Barry
Dancing is wonderful training for girls; it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.
- Christopher Morley, Kitty Foyle
Dance till the stars come down from the rafters
Dance, Dance, Dance till you drop.
- W.H. Auden
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is not mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.
- Havelock Ellis
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
On with the dance! Let joy be unconfined;
No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet
To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.
- George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good.
- Edwin Denby
There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.
- Michel de Montaigne
God Respects Us When We Work, but He Loves Us When We Dance.
- Title of a documentary film by Les Blanc about a 1960's love-in in Los Angeles
All dancing girls are nineteen years old.
- Japanese proverb
You don't stop dancing from growing old, you grow old from stopping to dance. - Unknown
Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance.
- Unknown
Dancing: The vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music.
- George Bernard Shaw
Those move easiest who have learned to dance.
- Alexander Pope
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
The girl who can't dance says the band can't play.
- Yiddish Proverb
