Valois Quotes & Sayings

All the children in the school should learn the steps of everything, before they learn the thing, then they know which step they're doing better, because your voice is in certain steps and has to do most of the things that have been composed in those steps. — Ninette De Valois

The best way to study is to go to the Cecchetti method for about a year and draw onto all the highest points and then put that into the general method. — Ninette De Valois

Excitement is the drunkenness of the spirits. Only calm waters reflect heaven in their bosom. — Margaret Of Valois

Bashfulness is not becoming to maidenhood, though modesty always is. — Margaret Of Valois

And then you have the classical ballerinas, they're like sopranos. Applied to the dance. — Ninette De Valois

Valois rolled his eyes, his own lips twitching. "How can one woman be so adorable and so frustrating at the same time? — Brooke Templar

I should rejoice if my pleasures were as pleasing to God as they are to myself. — Margaret Of Valois

Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits. — Ninette De Valois

There are women so hard to please that it would seem as if nothing less than an angel would suit them; and hence it comes that they often encounter devils. — Margaret Of Valois

There would never have been a British Ballet without Diaghilev. He had a wonderful influence. — Ninette De Valois

Nearly everything in life goes in threes and fours. — Ninette De Valois

As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves. — Ninette De Valois

Oh yes, after the war, and we were all starving - we had no proper food or anything - no proper shoes. — Ninette De Valois

There's nothing in the world that isn't good, bad, and indifferent. — Ninette De Valois

It is the same in love as in war; a fortress that parleys is half taken. — Marguerite De Valois

The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor. — Marguerite De Valois

No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures. — Marguerite De Valois

God gave us all exactly the same fingers, arms, legs, and feet, but in our different countries we divided them all a little differently as we feel it, do you understand? — Ninette De Valois

Gold adulterates one thing only,
the human heart. — Margaret Of Valois

We are always more disposed to laugh at nonsense than at genuine wit; because the nonsense is more agreeable to us, being more comfortable to our natures. — Margaret Of Valois

Women suffer more from disappointment than men, because they have more of faith and are naturally more credulous. — Margaret Of Valois

You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it. — Ninette De Valois

Nothing is done easily, first have the thing, then the thing has a success, then all sorts of difficulties arise through the success. — Ninette De Valois

The cup of joy is heaviest when empty. — Margaret Of Valois

Envy and hatred fascinate the eyes and never make them see things as they are. — Margaret Of Valois

Also, if you have an accident, you can't start to dance again at the top, you're too weak; you start with the easy things - the way you did them when you were young, and come up up up, the way you did then. — Ninette De Valois

It is only the educated who can produce or appreciate high art. — Margaret Of Valois

Have a care lest the wrinkles in the face extend to the heart. — Margaret Of Valois

You can't stop what comes into a country, you can be influenced, but you can't stop it, you shouldn't, because it makes all the others interesting, we all get muddled up together, and produce something that belongs to everyone. — Ninette De Valois

Oh yes, technique has definitely advanced. But you never advance without losing something en passant, and you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing. — Ninette De Valois

Somebody must always be doing something new, or life would get very dull. — Ninette De Valois

Well, I mean, we are developing the other parts, and we can't give quite all our attention to the upper part, but soon the lower parts will be developed, and the upper part and the lower part will become partners, that will be wonderful. — Ninette De Valois

Diaghilev was the first to notice good character dancers and that sort of thing. — Ninette De Valois

A woman of honor should never suspect another of things she would not do herself. — Marguerite De Valois

There are few husbands whom the wife cannot win in the long run, by patience and love. — Margaret Of Valois

Delta glanced at the artwork, the leather-bound books in the glass-fronted bookshelves, the fresh flowers in assorted vases.
"This is stunning," she said, moved by the beauty all around her. "Your home is beautiful."
Valois squeezed her hand in acknowledgement. "Thank you. You'll fit right in then. — Brooke Templar

Distrust ... is the beginning of hatred. — Margaret Of Valois

First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out. — Ninette De Valois

Servitude is inherent; we are all slaves to duty or to force. — Margaret Of Valois

So it takes years to make a solid company. — Ninette De Valois

Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God. — Margaret Of Valois

All Ballets' fundamental steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe. — Ninette De Valois

No no, we ALL teach each other, whether it's dancing, whether it's singing, whether it's talking, we all listen to each other. That's progress. — Ninette De Valois

Delicacy is the genuine tint of virtue. — Margaret Of Valois

God has put into the heart of man love and the boldness to sue, and into the heart of woman fear and the courage to refuse. — Margaret Of Valois

Exactly the same with dancing, you can't dance until you've learnt steps, the things your feet can do. — Ninette De Valois

Blushes cannot be counterfeited. — Margaret Of Valois

Mistrust is the sure forerunner of hatred. — Margaret Of Valois

The smile is the dance of the face - the dance is the smile of the limbs. — Ninette De Valois

Love works in miracles every day: such as weakening the strong, and stretching the weak; making fools of the wise, and wise men of fools; favouring the passions, destroying reason, and in a word, turning everything topsy-turvy. — Margaret Of Valois

The more hidden the venom, the more dangerous it is. — Marguerite De Valois

Extreme concupiscence may be found under extreme austerity. — Margaret Of Valois

There is in us more of the appearance of sense and virtue than of the reality. — Margaret Of Valois

Prudence advises us to use our enemies as if one day they might be friends. — Margaret Of Valois

Adversity is solitary, while prosperity dwells in a crowd — Margaret Of Valois

There is no greater fool than the man who thinks himself wise; no one is wiser than he who suspects he is a fool. — Margaret Of Valois

Temptations, like misfortunes, are sent to test our moral strength. — Margaret Of Valois

We shall all be perfectly virtuous when there is no longer any flesh on our bones. — Margaret Of Valois

It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops. — Ninette De Valois

Joy takes away from us the thoughts of our actions; sorrow it is that awakens the soul. — Margaret Of Valois

Classical ballet will never die. — Ninette De Valois

Remembering her own narrow single bed at home, she added without thinking, "Someone could get lost in that bed."

Valois laughed, surprising Delta and she looked curiously at him. His eyes twinkling wickedly, the Frenchman said, "Perhaps some company would relieve you of that fear. — Brooke Templar