• I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule.

  Horace Walpole
  British writer 1717-1797
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. ridicule
2. dancing
3. tongue
4. thinks
5. please
6. graces

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I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one's tongue don't move in the steps of the day, and thinks to please by its old graces, it is only an object of ridicule. by : Horace Walpole

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