Applause Quotes
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A traveller has a right to relate and embellish his adventures as he pleases, and it is very impolite to refuse that deference and applause they deserve.
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More Applause Quotes
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Charles Caleb Colton— Lacon, vol. I (1820), # 324.
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— "Loyalty and Sedition," essay published in The Advertiser (1748), printed in The Life and Public Service of Samuel Adams, Volume 1, by William Vincent Wells; Little, Brown, and Company; Boston, 1865
If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with Applause from the stage.
augustus— Statement made as he was dying, as quoted in The Fall of the Roman Empire (2007) by Rita J. Markel, p. 126
Only in the theatre was it possible to see the performers and to be warmed by their personal charm, to respond to their efforts and to feel their response to the Applause and appreciative laughter of the audience. It had an intimate quality; audience and actors conspired to make a little oasis of happiness and mirth within the walls of the theatre. Try as we will, we cannot be intimate with a shadow on a screen, nor a voice from a box.
Robertson Davies— Lew Fields (1941)
Applause, n. The echo of a platitude.
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce— 1906 The Cynic's Word Book. Retitled The Devil's Dictionary (1911).
Laughter is much more important than Applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.Laughter means they trust and like you.
Carol Elaine Channing— Attributed.
Every Iraqi atrocity has confirmed the justice and the urgency of our cause. (Applause.) Against this enemy we will accept no outcome except complete victory.
george w. bush— The East Room of the White House, March 28, 2003 [38]
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— Leslie Berger (January 28, 1982) "A Little Night Humor", The Washington Post, C1.
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Charles Caleb Colton— Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, p. 205.
Soul of the Age! The Applause, delight, the wonder of our stage!
Ben Jonson— 1623 'To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us'.
Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the Applause of people of poor taste; some of them would be capable of good acting in front of a good audience. A decent man plays his part to the best of his ability, regardless of the taste of the gallery.
nicolas chamfort— Reflections
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.
— "Unappreciated Shakespeare", Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, Christmas Number, 9 December 1882.
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world, is the highest Applause.
ralph waldo emerson— Ralph Waldo Emerson, An Address (July 15, 1838).
The Applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
— Samuel Johnson, reported in James Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson (1780).
Like Cato, give his little senate laws,And sit attentive to his own Applause.
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, Prologue to the Satires, line 207.
Their poet, a sad trimmer, but no less In company a very pleasant fellow, Had been the favorite of full many a mess Of men, and made them speeches when half mellow; And though his meaning they could rarely guess, Yet still they deign'd to hiccup or to bellow The glorious meed of popular Applause, Of which the first ne'er knows the second cause.
lord byron— Don Juan (1818-24), Canto III, Stanza 82.
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— Monologue, February 1, 2006
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.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg— K 42 (Notebook K (1789-1793))
The attitude of the true scientist towards the real limits of human understanding was unforgettably impressed on me in early youth by the obviously unpremeditated words of a great biologist; Alfred Kuhn finished a lecture to the Austrian Academy of Science with Goethe 's words, "It is the greatest joy of the man of thought to have explored the explorable and then calmly to revere the inexplorable." After the last word he hesitated, raised his hand in repudiation and cried, above the Applause, "No, not calmly, gentlemen; not calmly !"
Konrad Lorenz— Ch. XII : On the Virtue of Scientific Humility
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— To Cyriack Skinner (1655).
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.
— Richard Francis Burton, The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870), VIII.
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— Nathaniel Hawthorne, Marble Faun, Book II, Chapter XII. In Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 576-77.
Why do so many of us keep pursuing the short-lived payoffs of Applause and an adrenaline rush when plenty of signs point to the fact that our compulsive behaviors are, in fact, destroying us?
— p. 50 (Break Through: When to Give In, How to Push Back…The Moment That Changes Everything with Pat Springle (Worthy))
Thy road, my Biggleswade, deserving draws From the pleas'd traveller his just Applause; Nor less the lucid stream that laves thy side Deck'd in the flowing pomp of ready pride; Wether for gain, or in the finny line For on thy eels, good gods, how we did dine!
— Thomas Maude, 18th Century [ ]
The melancholy ghosts of dead renown, Whispering faint echoes of the world's Applause.
Edward Young— Edward Young, Night Thoughts (1742-1745), Night IX.
If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with Applause from the stage.
— Statement made as he was dying, as quoted in The Fall of the Roman Empire (2007) by Rita J. Markel, p. 126
Proportion thy charity to the strength of thy estate, lest God proportion thy estate to the weakness of thy charity; let the lips of the poor be the trumpet of thy gift, lest in seeking Applause, thou lose thy reward. Nothing is more pleasing to God than an open hand and a close mouth.-
— By Francis Quarles quoted in John Kitto (1853). Sunday reading, conducted by J. Kitto. p. 72.
