Applause Quotes

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

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.

There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause.

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

Part of me would love to have been a leading lady because there's a lot of glamour that goes with that and a lot of applause, but I've been very blessed.

Old men need applause too.

I always get more applause than votes.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause.

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.

When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.

Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

Yes, young men, Italy owes to you an undertaking which has merited the applause of the universe. You have conquered and you will conquer still, because you are prepared for the tactics that decide the fate of battles.

If you walk into a room and one hundred people say, 'You are a lovely, beautiful person', who isn't going to be affected by that? But you have to tell yourself not to value that. You have to tell yourself - or at least I do - to not become accustomed to hearing applause in any way, because I think that's dangerous.

Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end.

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.

O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?

Applause felt like approval, and it became a drug that soothed the pain, but only temporarily.

I know my body. What happened is that I got so caught up in the applause I forgot how I should dance. All my life I've been what others wanted - in dancing and in life. Now I'm doing it my way.

From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.

I would like you all to give me a round of applause as I have not crashed my car in over 15 months.

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

The applause is a celebration not only of the actors but also of the audience. It constitutes a shared moment of delight.

All of us love applause, and so we should - it means that the listener likes us!

The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world.

Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets it.

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.

We should welcome applause whenever it comes.