Quotes About Applause

The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.

Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier idols.

An actor is a man with an infinite capacity for taking praise.

A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.

I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man.

To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man.

There is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats.

The applause and the favour of our fellow-men Fan even a spark of genius to a flame.

When I hear a man applauded by the mob I always feel a pang of pity for him. All he has to do to be hissed is to live long enough.

There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.

Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair.

I do not care for the money, just for the glory.

There's nothing an economist should fear so much as applause.

My mother used to tell this corny story about how the doctor smacked me on the behind when I was born and I thought it was applause, and I have been looking for it ever since.

We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.

50 percent of the people I perform for have come to scream at me and the other 50 percent have come to listen to the music.

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new; While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.

Never pass on an opportunity to say thank you or give recognition for a job well done

An applause is not just the recognition of good performance, but its proof of being different than the crowd.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.

We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.