Applause Quotes

Applause is a receipt,
not a bill.

If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.

If anyone ever boos you off stage, that is simply applause from ghosts.

I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit.

So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong.

Applause is a receipt, not a note of demand.

We should welcome applause whenever it comes.

The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.

Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare.

It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause.

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

I still sing because I love the sound of applause, because it's who I am, and because I still can.

So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.

There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause.

We are full of rhythms . . . our pulse, our gestures, our digestive tracts, the lunar and seasonal cycles.

There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else.

Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable.

A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal

Evil report carries further than any applause.

I've always accepted applause as making me feel worthwhile. I hope I die being applauded. Just put a chaise longue under me and let me go.

The applause of silence. is the only kind that counts.

Old men need applause too.

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

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

I always get more applause than votes.

Beware [of] the investment activity that produces applause; the great moves are usually greeted by yawns.

We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.

The lights go down, you hear the applause and you're up there, and then everything else is forgotten.

Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it's by applause.

The hoopla, the applause, the praises have never excited me.

Every artist loves applause. The praise of his contemporaries is the most valuable part of his recompense.

I don't really feel that I deserve all my applause.

Just about the only interruption we don't object to is applause.

There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.

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

Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.

It was all cheese and applause.

applause, n. The echo of a platitude.

Nothing but disaster follows from applause.

Bacon's the best, even the frying of bacon sounds like an applause.

Appreciation, applause, approval, respect - we all love it!

There is always a certain noise in applause: even in the applause we give ourselves.

That's the greatest applause that any person will ever receive in their life when it comes from their peers

C'mon, we're actors. We love the attention. We love the applause. We sure don't like to be rejected.

O, that our fathers would applause our loves, To seal our happiness with hteir consents!

We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.

Applause abates diligence.

Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause.

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?

Applause was designed to bemuse and confuse you until it explodes into a chorus that reminds us why we love pop music.