Applause Quotes

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause. (John Updike)
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love. View quote
William Hazlitt
O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms? View quote
William Cowper
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Life is a play that does not allow testing. So, sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely, before the curtain closes and the piece ends with no applause. View quote
Charlie Chaplin
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. View quote
Edmund Burke
Applause is a receipt, not a bill. View quote
Dale Carnegie
So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause. View quote
George Lucas
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country. View quote
James Otis
Humor is the most honest of emotions. Applause for a speech can be insincere, but with humor, if the audience doesn't like it there's no faking it. (Robert Orben)
All of us love applause, and so we should - it means that the listener likes us! View quote
Emanuel Ax
But when women are moved and lend help, when women, who are by nature calm and controlled, give encouragement and applause, when virtuous and knowledgeable women grace the endeavor with their sweet love, then it is invincible. View quote
José Martí
In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people. View quote
Judy Garland
Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause; He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws. View quote
Richard Francis Burton
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. View quote
George Eliot
As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters. View quote
Edward Gibbon
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Those of you who speak only English, applaud [audience applause]. Those of you who speak only Spanish, applaud [audience applause]. [In mock incredulity] Then how do you know what I just said? View quote
Gloria Estefan
It is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty is the authority and interest of one individual man, however dignified by the applause or enriched by the success of popular actions. View quote
Samuel Adams
Applause is a receipt, not a note of demand. (Artur Schnabel)
From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That's my world. I love it. I enjoy it. I live for it. View quote
Erykah Badu
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping . View quote
Dale Carnegie
When Sir Winton Turnbull [who represented a large rural seat], a slow and sometimes stumbling speaker, was raving and ranting on the adjournment and shouted: "I am a Count–ry member". I interjected "I remember". Sir Winton could not understand why, for the first time in all the years he had been speaking in the House, there was instant and loud applause from both sides. View quote
Gough Whitlam
I have discovered three things which know no geographical borders - classical music, American jazz, and applause as the sign of the public's favor. View quote
Jascha Heifetz