Village: The Village Inn
discussing quote:
[Dancing is] A perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
Shaw, George Bernard
Started by 
Phaedrus
Shouldn't this be a VERTICAL expression of a horizontal desire?
Brenda said:
I had always heard the quotation (about dancing) as "the vertical expression of a horizontal desire".
Brenda said:
I found the whole quotation elsewhere "Dancing is the vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music".
amitkoth said:
I've added [Dancing is] but appears to be correct: http://skitch.com/amitk/dr16b/oxford-dictionary-of-humorous-quotations-google-books