Quotes About Ballroom

What about a chaperone?" he asked, though he was already guiding her to the side entrance of the ballroom. Her smile turned wry. "Women my age don't require chaperones, McKenna." He slid an unnervingly thorough glance over her. "You may need one yet.

The house party was collected in the ballroom already, and carraiges were arriving from all the great houses of the neighbourhood. The Pemberley ballroom was fully equal to such gathering, and it looked its most beautiful, with hundreds of wax-candles sparkling in the great crystal chabdeliers, tge polished floor gleaming in readiness for the dance, and the holly decorations hanging in festoons from the walls, making a most festive Christmas appearance.

about Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle during the filming of Windy Riley Goes Hollywood (1931)]: Oh, I thought he was magnificent in films. He was a wonderful dancer... a wonderful ballroom dancer, in his heyday. It was like floating in the arms of a huge donut... really delightful.

If you do not flirt, how will you manage this marriage you anticipate making next season?" "I expect I will dance with her at balls a few times, call on her a few times, then propose." "How dreadful you make it sound. Poor girl." "Dreadful? Poor girl? She will be a duchess. Her family will be delirious with joy.

My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education – from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.

in the Beverly Club ballroom I had had my first dancing lessons; Miss Mattie holding up her long, full black taffeta skirt, her neat toes pointing out, and two rows of small boys and girls awkwardly hopping about.

It was a dance. Or would be, if the composer and the musicians were all mad, and the ballroom was a sodden grave.

He was, she realised, quite graceful. The very idea surprised her. Male grace was a quality she'd never thought of beyond the ballroom; either a man could dance a quadrille with skill and without stepping on her feet or he could not. But here was another kind of grace altogether--and untrained grace, an instinctive animal grace.