Quadrille Quotes

Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry-box. (Henry James)
We granted certiorari, and in this Court the parties changed positions as nimbly as if dancing a quadrille. View quote
Robert H. Jackson
I've mastered many things in my life. Navigating the strets of London, dancing the quadrille, the Japanese art of flower arranging, lying at charades, concealing a highly intoxicated state, delighting young women with my charms... View quote
Cassandra Clare
The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician. At the heart of things science finds only a mad, never-ending quadrille of Mock Turtle Waves and Gryphon Particles. For a moment the waves and particles dance in grotesque, inconceivably complex patterns capable of reflecting on their own absurdity. View quote
Martin Gardner