Quotes
Quotes about Applause
There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.
There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.
Fare ye well, and give us your applause. [Lat., Vos valete et plaudite.] -- last words of several comedies
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.
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.
Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.
The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. -- Lacon (p. 205)
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
O Popular Applause! what heart of man Is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms? -- Task (bk. II, l. 431)
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. -- The Borough (letter XVII, l. 198)
Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.
The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause; Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he can, Force is of brutes, but honor is of man. -- Palamon and Arcite (bk. III, l. 2015)
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world, is the highest applause. -- in an address
Applause waits on success.
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. -- Elegy in a Country Churchyard. Stanza 16.
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. -- Marble Faun (bk. II, ch. XII)
We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.
We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence. -- Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. vii. Chap. x.
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence. -- Boswell's Life of Johnson
Soul of the age,
The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage,
My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by
Chaucer or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie
A little further, to make thee a room. -- To the Memory of Shakespeare.
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.
Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.
There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause.
Napoleon's troops fought in bright fields, where every helmet caught some gleams of glory; but the British soldier conquered under the cool shade of aristocracy. No honours awaited his daring, no despatch gave his name to the applauses of his countrymen; his life of danger and hardship was uncheered by hope, his death unnoticed. -- Peninsular War (1810). Vol. ii. Book xi. Chap. iii.
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.
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.
By flatterers besieg'd,
And so obliging that he ne'er oblig'd;
Like Cato, give his little senate laws,
And sit attentive to his own applause. -- Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot. Prologue to the Satires. Line 207.
Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause. -- Prologue to the Satires (l. 207)
I'll privily away; I love the people, But do not like to stage me to their eyes; Though it do well, I do not relish well Their loud applause and aves vehement, Nor do I think the man of safe discretion That does not affect it. -- Measure for Measure (Vincentio, the Duke at I, i)
I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly; a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause transform ourselves into beasts! -- Othello the Moor of Venice (Cassio at II, iii)
A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success. - On Doing What One Likes.
The melancholy ghosts of dead renown, Whispering faint echoes of the world's applause. -- Night Thoughts (night IX)
