Applause Quotes

Sincere compliments cost nothing and can accomplish much. In any relationship, they are the applause that refreshes.

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.

A lot of people say you've got all the loving in the world when you walk out on stage. But hell, that applause don't help you any when you're lying in that bed at night being totally ignored

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

When you hear bacon cooking....that sizzling sound isn't the fat cooking....that's applause.

So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.

Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.

Did I play my role well? If so, then applause, because the comedy is finished!

People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause.

There was so much to learn and it was all fun. But the best part was getting a laugh from an audience. That was like drowning in candy.

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

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

Every ear is tickled with the sweet music of applause.

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

I know my body. What happened is that I got so caught up in the applause I forgot how I should dance. All my life I've been what others wanted - in dancing and in life. Now I'm doing it my way.

Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.

What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause.

Humor is the most honest of emotions. Applause for a speech can be insincere, but with humor, if the audience doesn't like it there's no faking it.

A stand-up comic is judged by every line. Singers get applause at the end of their song no matter how bad they are.

One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade and blacken out of sight or the canvas rot entirely away.

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

I am bit sending messages with my feet. All I ever wanted was not to come up empty. I did it for the dough and the old applause.

To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

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.

Old men need applause too.

Evil report carries further than any applause.

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

All of us love applause, and so we should - it means that the listener likes us!

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

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

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.

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

We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.

An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

Behind the footlights there is always the applause, which stimulates the actors. On the screen it is a different matter.

One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.

Instead of always asking how to get others to approve of you... learn to ask: What do I really want, the applause of the crowds or to quietly have my own life?

Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath in the silence of the end.

Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers. Christian Bovee A little praise Goes a great ways.

Any honours that come our way are only stolen from him to whom alone they really belong, the Lord who sent us.

He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.

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

The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.

Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the best of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves.

I can't hear the critics talking over the applause.