Hold Your Applause Quotes

#1. If you're going to live here, staying civil is as much a duty as sitting the steps or washing dishes. Now, while I bask in the glow of another moral sermon delivered with the precision of a master fencer, hold your applause and let's get back to last night.

Scott Lynch

#2. To intuit is to retrieve subconscious memories, which is why experience is the mother of intuition.

Pablo De Santis

#3. If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

J. Paul Getty

#4. You're now getting a new breed of people like Il Divo and Andrea Bocelli and I think that's why people feel less intimidated by classical music than they once did.

Katherine Jenkins

#5. The framework of men's wear is so narrow, that when you play at the edges you get labeled.

Hedi Slimane

#6. True politeness is consideration for the opinions of others. It has been said of dogmatism that it is only puppyism come to its full growth; and certainly the worst form this quality can assume is that of opinionativeness and arrogance.

Samuel Smiles

#7. Men are just as sensitive, and in some ways more sensitive, than women are.

Barbara De Angelis

#8. I am so screwed.

Paul Emil

#9. I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.

Ava Gardner

#10. There's a tipping point with lies, a point where you've said something so many times that it feels truer than the truth.

Holly Black

#11. In Jesus and for Him, enemies and friends alike are to be loved.

Thomas A Kempis

#12. There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.

Earle Brown

#13. That friendship may be at once fond and lasting, there must not only be equal virtue on each part, but virtue of the same kind; not only the same end must be proposed, but the same means must be approved by both.

Samuel Johnson

#14. Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends.

Tom Waits

#15. Realized that this country has gone so flabby that any gang daring enough and unscrupulous enough, and smart enough not to seem illegal, can grab hold of the entire government and have all the power and applause and salutes, all the money and palaces and willin' women they want.

Sinclair Lewis