Applause Quotes
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Evil report carries further than any applause.
Baltasar Gracian -
From day one, I got addicted to being on stage and getting the applause and laughter.
Zac Efron
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I've always believed applause is food for an artist.
Engelbert Humperdinck -
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 Miami Sound Machine -
We are full of rhythms . . . our pulse, our gestures, our digestive tracts, the lunar and seasonal cycles.
Yehudi Menuhin -
You must be prepared to work always without applause.
Ernest Hemingway -
I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man.
George Washington -
Applause is a receipt, not a bill.
Dale Carnegie
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O, that our fathers would applause our loves, To seal our happiness with hteir consents!
William Shakespeare -
I think some people who go into public life, if they go in needing the applause of thousands, they're never going to work out successfully in the end, because they don't know who they are apart from the crowds.
Doris Kearns Goodwin -
The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.
Alec Guinness -
The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish one would rather strike them between the ears.
Carl Maria von Weber -
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.
Leni Riefenstahl -
It's always great to see grey hairs in a crowd; people who are older have been to a lot more gigs than the kids; they've seen everything, so seeing them in the crowd means we've earned their applause.
Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons
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Applause was designed to bemuse and confuse you until it explodes into a chorus that reminds us why we love pop music.
Lady Gaga -
Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.
Alfred Jarry -
Among the numerous pleasures of Vienna the hotel evenings are famous. During supper Strauss or Lanner play waltzes...After every waltz they get huge applause; and if they play a Quodlibet, or jumble of opera, song and dance, the hearers are so overjoyed that they don't know what to do with themselves. It shows the corrupt taste of the Viennese public.
Frederic Chopin -
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.
William Shenstone -
People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause.
Andrew Cuomo -
There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.
Plato
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When you hear bacon cooking....that sizzling sound isn't the fat cooking....that's applause.
Jim Gaffigan -
I don't really feel that I deserve all my applause.
Willie Stargell -
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
William Hazlitt -
Bacon's the best, even the frying of bacon sounds like an applause.
Jim Gaffigan