Quotes with applause

  • One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.
  • If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this; enjoy it but never quite believe it.
  • The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
  • In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.
  • Applause is the most powerful thing... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.
  • My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe 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.
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  • Robert Montgomery If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this; enjoy it but never quite believe it.
    Robert Montgomery
    English poet and minister (1807 - 1855)
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  • George Eliot In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • John Updike An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Artur Schnabel Applause is a receipt, not a bill.
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  • C. C. H. Pounder Applause is the most powerful thing... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.
    C. C. H. Pounder
    Guyanese–American actress
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Greil Marcus Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.
    Greil Marcus
    American author, music journalist and critic (1945 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin Applause waits on success.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Evil report carries further than any applause.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Judy Garland In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.
    Judy Garland
    American singer and actress (1922 - 1969)
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  • David Hume It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause.
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • John Dryden Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Carol Channing Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.
    Carol Channing
    American actress and singer (1921 - 2019)
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  • Alexander Pope Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Robert Montgomery My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it.
    Robert Montgomery
    English poet and minister (1807 - 1855)
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  • William Shakespeare 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!
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • William Cowper O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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  • Horace One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • John Bright Popular applause veers with the wind.
    John Bright
    British politician (1811 - 1889)
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  • William Hazlitt Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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