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Quotes About Applause

Way to go, Dallas!
~ Tom Clancy
Don't clap too loudly—it's a very old world.
~ Tom Stoppard
No one gets up after death-there is no applause-there is only silence and some second-hand clothes, and that's death.
~ Tom Stoppard
There is no wine in this world as heady as applause.
~ Khushwant Singh
There is no wine in the world as heady as applause; and it has the same effect. It temporarily subdues anxiety and restores confidence.
~ Khushwant Singh
When all others have stopped, God is still applauding you.
~ Kirk Byron Jones
So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.
~ George Lucas
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.
~ George Matthew Adams
There isn't much that tastes better than praise from those who are wise and capable.
~ Selma Lagerlöf
Response to clapping: "Thank you for ovating."
~ Anonymous
Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? All the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
~ John Lennon
Popular applause veers with the wind.
~ John Bright
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Approbation from Sir Hubert Stanley is praise indeed.
~ Thomas Morton
The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
~ Xenophon
From self alone expect applause.
~ Marion L. Burton
is high praise.
~ J.D. Robb
I've talked to Bill Clinton - he's the ultimate rock star; no one's more charming than him. People clap in a restaurant when he finishes dinner! I don't get that treatment. I get it when I walk onstage, but not when I have dinner.
~ Jay-Z
In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic deed.
~ Thomas Wentworth Higginson
When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
I'm intoxicated by applause. It's my nectar.
~ Tallulah Bankhead
Applause is the beginning of abuse
~ Ted Hughes
There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night.
~ John Lithgow
Don't accept the applause of men, and you won't be destroyed by their criticism.
~ Reinhard Bonnke