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)
O Popular Applause! what heart of manIs proof against thy sweet seducing charms?
william cowper— Line 481.
Applause is a receipt, not a note of demand.
Artur Schnabel— Saturday Review of Literature September 29, 1951.
— Explaining why he never played encores.
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Charles Caleb Colton— Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, p. 205.
Popular Applause! what heart of manIs proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
william cowper— William Cowper, The Task (1785), Book II, line 431.
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Charles Caleb Colton— Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, vol. I (1820), # 324.
The velvet of her paws, Her coat that with the tortoise vies, Her ears of jet and emerald eyes, She saw; and purred Applause.
thomas gray— 1747 Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes, l.9-12.
You Americans donot rearchildren, you incite them; you give them food and shelter and Applause.
Randall Jarrell— 1954 Pictures from an Institution, pt.4, ch.10.
Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain Applause which he cannot keep.
— 1750-2 In The Rambler.
Peter Sellers, a showbiz baby, was carried onstage two weeks into his life by vaudevillian Dickie Henderson, who encouraged the audience to join him in singing "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow." Little Peter instantly burst into tears and the audience erupted into laughter and Applause. From Pete's perspective, this emotional scenario was played out more or less consistently until his death in 1980.
Peter Sellers— Ed Sikov in Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers (2002)
In fine, I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the Applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time.
Thucydides— Book I, 1.22-[4]
When Sir Winton Turnbull [who represented a large rural seat] was raving and ranting on the adjournment and shouted: "I am a Country member". I interjected "I remember". He could not understand why, for the first time in all the years he had been speaking in the House, there was instant and loud Applause from both sides.
gough whitlam— From a speech during a debate on the question That Politicians Have Lost Their Sense Of Humour, Sydney Town Hall, 24 May 2000
If the nation only knew their hands dripped with innocent blood, it would have met them not with Applause but with stones.
georgy zhukov— Quoted in "A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia" - Page 3 - by Alexander N. Yakovlev, Anthony Austin - Political Science - 2002 -
Those of you who speak only English, applaud [audience Applause]. Those of you who speak only Spanish, applaud [audience Applause]. [In mock incredulity] Then how do you know what I just said?
gloria estefan— "trick" question at innumerable concerts— always with the same result
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 hist'ry in a nation's eyes.
thomas gray— St. 16. (Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1750))
[IRENE ROSENBAUM:] ...“you Americans do not rear children, you incite them; you give them food and shelter and Applause”...
Randall Jarrell— Chapter 4, p. 180
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; Thou art a monument, without a tomb, And art alive still, while thy book doth live, And we have wits to read , and praise to give .
Ben Jonson— Lines 17 - 24; this was inspired by a eulogy by William Basse, On Shakespeare:
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.
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 affect it.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure (1603), Act I, scene 1, line 68.
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.
— Francis Quarles, p. 25. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
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— George Crabbe, Borough, Letter XVII, line 198.
Plato's discovery went as follows. It is possible for something to be a certain way and for something else to be the same way. So There are universals. (Tumultuous Applause, which lasts, despite occasional subsidences, 2,400 years.)[…] ' Universals ' is simply the name philosophers give to the ways in which two or more things can be the same.
— David Stove (1995). Darwinian Fairytales: Selfish Genes, Errors of Heredity, and Other Fables of Evolution, ISBN 185972 306 3
