Top 100 Quotes About Applause
#1. A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#2. O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
William Cowper
#4. We want more people owning things in this country. (Applause.) Let me put it to you bluntly: In a changing world, we want more people to have
control over your own life.
George W. Bush
#5. Washington society has always demanded less and given more than any society in this country
demanded less of applause, deference,etiquette, and has accepted as current coin quick wit, appreciative tact, and a talent for talking.
M. E. W. Sherwood
#6. The hoopla, the applause, the praises have never excited me.
Martin Yan
#7. The first time I acted was in high school in Florida, and when I heard that applause I felt so alive and felt that electricity go up my spine.
Angela Bassett
#8. What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.
Barbra Streisand
#9. Nothing guarantees more applause and more support than the call to abolish the IRS.
Frank Luntz
#10. People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause.
Andrew Cuomo
#11. People come into public life for different reasons. None of us are ego-challenged, I think, or we probably wouldn't be doing what we're doing, so if anyone tells you that they don't like the sound of the applause and the ego gratification, I don't think they're being straight with you.
Evan Bayh
#12. When a woman enters my house, a tunnel of books welcomes her, a carnival of heroes bounces from every corner, and I lead her straight through the welcoming applause of writers and mice.
Rawi Hage
#13. Cyriack, whose Grandsire on the Royal Bench Of British Themis, with no mean applause Pronounced and in his volumes taught our Laws, Which others at their Bar so often wrench
John Milton
#14. Keep shooting. It helps the model's confidence. Flashing strobes are like
applause.
A.K. Nicholas
#15. Affectation proceeds from one of these two causes,
vanity or hypocrisy; for as vanity puts us on affecting false characters, in order to purchase applause; so hypocrisy sets us on an endeavor to avoid censure, by concealing our vices under an appearance of their opposite virtues.
Henry Fielding
#16. A dutiful wife enables a good man to add her hands to his own for self-applause.
Tom Morrison
#17. Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!
Ben Jonson
#18. Temp'rate in every place
abroad, at home, Thence will applause, and hence will profit come; And health from either
he in time prepares For sickness, age, and their attendant cares.
George Crabbe
#19. So this is how liberty dies," she was saying to herself. "With cheering, and applause.
Matthew Woodring Stover
#20. The most remarkable moment is when you go out on the stage and you hear the applause of the audience!
Mireille Mathieu
#21. Chandresh relishes reactions. Genuine reactions, not mere polite applause. He often values the reactions over the show itself. A show without an audience is nothing, after all. In the response of the audience, that is where the power of performance lives.
Erin Morgenstern
#22. I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit.
Emanuel Ax
#23. To be forward to praise others implies either great eminence, that can afford to, part with applause; or great quickness of discernment, with confidence in our own judgments; or great sincerity and love of truth, getting the better of our self-love.
William Hazlitt
#24. As a spectator I witnessed the applause given to the performer, so I decided to be the performer.
Amit Kalantri
#25. First they applaud you. Now you have become VICTIM. Just to get their applause, you will lie more and more. You will start fulfilling their expectations and you will become more and more unreal. This is a vicious cycle.
Osho
#26. Characters die all the time. At times, they die amongst a reader's tears, and at others, amongst the applause, and some, still, in quiet satisfaction.
Ben Peek
#27. How many watched the President's speech last night? [half-hearted audience applause] How many watched American Idol ? [thundering applause] Okay, there you go! You get the government you deserve.
Jay Leno
#28. One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade and blacken out of sight or the canvas rot entirely away.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#29. Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause.
Samuel Richardson
#30. I close my eyes and listen to the ocean.
I'm thinking about sailing, to England or maybe France. The way the wind would feel on my face and the sound of his voice screaming my name through his laughter. The waves would crash like applause. God, I remember when I used to be afraid of the ocean.
Hannah Moskowitz
#31. When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.
Ruth Brown
#32. Ah yes, a great victory, this 'sport'. I am sure El Toro appreciates the applause
Jumping in the Puddles of Life
Loretta Livingstone
#34. I thank you in advance for the great round of applause I'm about to get.
Bo Diddley
#35. When an audience shares your prejudices you can always count on their applause.
Marty Rubin
#36. People do still cheer for the President. And some of the military audiences are more likely to cheer than others. I have seen him speak lately in front of groups like Freedom House, where the applause was a long time coming.
Gwen Ifill
#37. A popular speaker, however unpopular and insignificant, has only to wind up his speech with half-a-dozen lines of Shakespeare (and to make it clearly understood that they are Shakespeare's) and he will sit down amid thunders of applause.
W.S. Gilbert
#38. Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair.
Thomas Carlyle
#39. It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. But to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing
David Hume
#40. Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause: 'Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause.
Ben Jonson
#41. Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier idols.
George Eliot
#42. Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.
Emanuel Ax
#43. Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,' he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. 'Shake it off. Stop complainin'. Stop grumblin'. Stop cryin'. We are going to press on. We have work to do.
Barack Obama
#44. Let what I here set down meet with correction or applause, it shall be of equal welcome and utility to me [...]And yet, always submitting to the authority of their
censure, which has an absolute power over me, I thus rashly venture at everything.
Michel De Montaigne
#45. 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.
Samuel Adams
#46. Clapping is easily the best example of self-amplification in the world. It sprouts from a single wham to a wave of sound in no time. As soon as someone clapped on hearing Tulsi's name, an avalanche of applause followed.
Pawan Mishra
#47. What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal.
Anna Pavlova
#48. Beware of your definition of success: If it has more to do with what other people think of you than it does with what you know of your own abilities, you may be confusing applause with achievement.
Joan D. Chittister
#49. Fiordland, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the south-west corner of South Island, New Zealand, is one of the most astounding pieces of land anywhere on God's earth, and one's first impulse, standing on a cliff top surveying it all, is simply to burst into spontaneous applause.
Douglas Adams
#51. The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish one would rather strike them between the ears.
Carl Maria Von Weber
#52. 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
#53. There's a huge difference between the shallow pleasure of instant applause and the long-lasting impact of true connection.
Seth
#54. I was born and raised to entertain other people. I've heard laughter and applause and known a lot of sorrow. Everything about me is based on show business - I think it will bring me happiness. I hope so.
Donald O'Connor
#55. Age looked at youth, and youth's applause first weakened, then died.
Stephen King
#56. I am bit sending messages with my feet. All I ever wanted was not to come up empty. I did it for the dough and the old applause.
Fred Astaire
#57. Men do not know why they award fame to one work of art rather than another. Without being in the faintest connoisseurs, they think to justify the warmth of their commendations by discovering it in a hundred virtues, whereas the real ground of their applause is inexplicable
it is sumpathy.
Thomas Mann
#58. I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.
Edmund Hillary
#59. Dehortations from the use of strong liquors have been the favourite topic of sober declaimers in all ages, and have been received with abundance of applause by water-drinking critics. But with the patient himself, the man that is to be cured, unfortunately their sound has seldom prevailed.
Charles Lamb
#60. O heart, be at peace, because
Nor knave nor dolt can break
What's not for their applause,
Being for a woman's sake.
William Butler Yeats
#61. Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
John Dryden
#62. If I have played my part well, then give me applause.
Mary Beard
#63. The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.
Gustav Mahler
#64. I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think.
David Bowie
#65. All one has to do to get one's stuff in the Congressional Record is to find a stenographer that can stay awake long enough to take it down. Then you mark in the 'Applause' and 'Laughter' parts yourself.
Will Rogers
#66. Those who turn against the Church do so to play to their own private gallery, but when, one day, the applause has died down and the cheering has stopped, they will face a smaller audience, the judgment bar of God.
Neal A. Maxwell
#67. what matters in life is not whether we receive a round of applause; what matters is whether we have the courage to venture forth despite the uncertainty of acclaim." "If
Amor Towles
#68. Henry Chinaski, the principal said over the microphone. And I walked forward. There was no applause. The one kindly soul in the audience gave two or three clasps.
Charles Bukowski
#69. 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.
Erykah Badu
#70. Artists ... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors.
Robert Genn
#71. Nice things are done for our own sake, not for the sake of others. The pleasure must reside in the performance, not in the applause. Good deeds are, in a deeper psychological way, a favor to oneself. If this is not grasped, then our whole sense of personal relationships becomes warped.
Sydney J. Harris
#72. Applause is interesting, but I'm a monster with or without it. Something is either well written or it isn't. 'White Rabbit' is not well written, and no amount of applause or royalties can convince me it is. I could have done a better job with those lyrics. They didn't say what I wanted.
Grace Slick
#73. The applause of list'ning senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes.
Thomas Gray
#74. I must feel pride in my friend's accomplishments as if they were mine,
and a property in his virtues. I feel as warmly when he ispraised, as the lover when he hears applause of his engaged maiden.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#75. What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.
Bob Dylan
#76. It seemed to Jahan that, in truth, this world, too, was a spectacle. One way or another, everyone was parading. They performed their tricks, each of them, some staying longer, others shorter, but in the end they all left through the back door, similarly unfulfilled, similarly in need of applause.
Elif Shafak
#77. Every ear is tickled with the sweet music of applause.
Isaac Barrow
#78. I don't care for the applause one gets by saying what others are thinking; I want actually to change people's thoughts. Power over people's minds is the main personal desire of my life; and this sort of power is not acquired by saying popular things.
Bertrand Russell
#79. I'm really only responsible to make sure that one person is clapping at the end of my life. Because I feel like as a performer, a lot of times you live for everyone else's applause. That's a dangerous thing within the church or outside the church.
Jon Foreman
#80. As a magician you will miss the hundred percent of the applause if you don't perform.
Amit Kalantri
#81. a man cannot fulfill his purpose if he is living for applause, approval, and affirmation in this world. It simply will not come - not enough, certainly, to answer the needs of his soul.
Stephen Mansfield
#82. An applause is not just the recognition of good performance, but its proof of being different than the crowd.
Amit Kalantri
#83. I began my first Cabinet meeting since the terrorist attacks. As I stepped into the room, the team broke out in sustained applause. I was surprised, and I choked up at their heartfelt support. The tears flowed for the second time in two days.
George W. Bush
#84. In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
George Eliot
#85. Display startling novelty-rise afresh like the sun every day. Change too the scene on which you shine, so that you rloss may be felt in the old scenes of your triumph, while the novelty of your powers wins applause in the new.
Baltasar Gracian
#86. Little is known about her. We are assured, however, that the same damnable involvements that obsess us obsess her too. Copulation. Strangeness. Applause.
Donald Barthelme
#87. Ads are not written to entertain. When they do, those entertainment seekers rare little likely to be the people whom you want. This is one of the greatest advertising faults. Ad writers abandon their part. They forgot they are salesmen and try to be performers. Instead of sales, they seek applause
Claude C. Hopkins
#88. Bacon's the best. Even the frying of bacon sounds like applause.
Jim Gaffigan
#89. To the proud, the applause of the world rings in their ears; to the humble, the applause of heaven warms their hearts.
Ezra Taft Benson
#90. Well, I'm not one of those people who needs the limelight. If I'm performing, that's what I'm doing. If I'm not, I don't long for it. I don't need the approval of an audience, or applause.
Patti Smith
#91. Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.
Homer
#92. It's my theory that if you hear enough applause and laughter at a young enough age, you're doomed
John Lithgow
#93. Many have exchanged the touch of God for the applause of men
John Paul Warren
#94. To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
Franz Grillparzer
#95. I want to thank you for stopping the applause. It is impossible for me to look humble for any period of time.
Henry A. Kissinger
#96. Customary interruptions are not only gratifying and cheering, but they are also really necessary in order to gain breath and voice to carry one on through some violent exertions; though after all it must be confessed that silence is the most flattering applause an Actor can receive.
Sarah Siddons
#97. One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.
Horace
#98. Sincere compliments cost nothing and can accomplish so much. In ANY relationship, they are the applause that refreshes.
Steve Goodier
#99. You get a good review, and it's like crack. You need another hit. And another. And another. I know authors are like Tinkerbell and generally need applause to survive, but it's a slippery slope.
Alexandra Bracken
#100. I still sing because I love the sound of applause, because it's who I am, and because I still can.
Brenda Lee
