APPLAUSE QUOTES

quotations about applause

To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.

G.C. LICHTENBERG

Aphorisms


Anybody's applause is better than nobody's.

LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON

Francesca Carrara


Applause is like oxygen. It warms your soul and you feel yourself a creator, if only for a half hour.

SERGEI RACHMANINOFF

letter to Marietta Shaginyan


I have been nourished by the sickly food
Of popular applause.

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

The Borderers


When most the world applauds you, most beware;
'Tis often less a blessing, than a snare.

EDWARD YOUNG

Love of Fame


We protest against unjust criticism, but we accept unearned applause.

JOSE NAROSKY

Si Todos Los Sueños


Applause is like a vapor. If you've watched someone smoke a long cigar, take a puff then blow the smoke out, what happens after a minute? The smoke is gone. Applause feels great while it lasts, but if you want more, you've got to earn it.

FRANK MCKINLEY

"The Power of Applause", May 12, 2012


Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon


There's a new alarm clock on the market for actors. It doesn't ring--it applauds.

E.C. MCKENZIE

14,000 Quips and Quotes


When an audience shares your prejudices you can always count on their applause.

MARTY RUBIN

attributed, goodreads


I live for the applause, applause, applause
I live for the applause-plause, live for the applause-plause
Live for the way that you cheer and scream for me
The applause, applause, applause.

LADY GAGA

"Applause", Artpop


Who decides when the applause should die down? It seems like it's a group decision; everyone begins to say to themselves at the same time, "Well, okay, that's enough of that."

GEORGE CARLIN

attributed, The Mammoth Book of Comic Quotes


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

DRAKE

"Congratulations"


Unruly murmurs, or ill-timed applause
Wrong the best speaker, and the justest cause.

HOMER

Iliad


Applause waits on success.

THOMAS FRANCKLIN

Earl of Warwick


Do what manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause;
He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.

RICHARD BURTON

The Kasidah


Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

ARTUR SCHNABEL

Saturday Review of Literature, September 29, 1951


APPLAUSE, n. The echo of a platitude.

AMBROSE BIERCE

The Devil's Dictionary


Give me that thing that I love (Turn the lights on)
Put your hands up, make 'em touch, touch (Make it real loud)
Give me that thing that I love (Turn the lights on)
Put your hands up, make 'em touch, touch (Make it real loud)

LADY GAGA

"Applause"


Applause, applause!
Vociverous applause
From orchestra to gallery
Could mean a raise in salary.
Give out, give in!--
Be noisy, make a din!
(The manager, he audits our plaudits.)

IRA GERSHWIN

"Applause, Applause"