Applause Quotes

applause, n. The echo of a platitude.

— Ambrose Bierce

Applause abates diligence.

— Samuel Johnson

As a performer, we look for applause.

— Sushmita Sen

Old men need applause too.

— Don Everly

Applause, applause, life is our cause.

— Joni Mitchell

Pause so the fans can applause.

— Chris Brown

Popular applause veers with the wind.

— John Bright

When you dont have a umbrella

— Anonymous

So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.

— George Lucas

I clapped because it finished, not because I liked it

— Alfonso Martinez

I tried my hardest and people rewarded me with applause.

— Alfredo Di Stefano

“They've had the old clap-yo'-hands so many times it amounts to applause.”

— Truman Capote

People will clap to be nice. They will not laugh to be nice.

— Kenny Rogers

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

— Augustus

Cooperation in the most natural thing in the world

— Janine Benyus

Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!

— Ben Jonson

Try to exist even under hardest conditions! That is the effort which deserves the applauses most!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

— Rudolf Bing

We want more people owning things in this country. Let me put it to you bluntly: In a changing world, we want…

— George W. Bush

Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare.

— Claudia Christian

I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession…

— Thucydides

What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one…

— Anna Pavlova

I would like you all to give me a round of applause as I have not crashed my car in over 15 months.

— Matthew Perry

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

— Andrew Cuomo

Dehortations from the use of strong liquors have been the favourite topic of sober declaimers in all ages, and have been received…

— Charles Lamb

You can tell by the applause: There's perfunctory applause, there's light applause, and then there's real applause. When it's right, applause sounds…

— Skitch Henderson

Ads are not written to entertain. When they do, those entertainment seekers rare little likely to be the people whom you want.…

— Claude C. Hopkins

I remember walking out in front of that crowd, all the parents' faces and the applause, and folding my little self in…

— Dallas Roberts

I try to be good at it, whatever part I'm playing - even in my daily life or when the spotlight hits…

— Dolly Parton

“Henry Chinaski", the principal said over the microphone. And I walked forward. There was no applause. The one kindly soul in the…

— Charles Bukowski

Oh, popular applause! what heart of man Is proof against thy sweet seducing charms? The wisest and the best feel urgent need…

— William Cowper

You get a good review, and it’s like crack. You need another hit. And another. And another. I know authors are like…

— Alexandra Bracken

Apologizing for our past sins may reveal character and for a time lessen anti-Americanism abroad, but if it is done without acknowledging…

— Victor Davis Hanson

The teacher always used me as an example to the class of good English and good storytelling because we all had to…

— Michael Jackson

The truly great consider, first, how they may gain the approbation of God, and, secondly, that of their own conscience. Having done…

— Charles Caleb Colton

A wise man's kingdom is his own breast: or, if he ever looks farther, it will only be to the judgment of…

— David Hume

The absence of romance from my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged useful by…

— Thucydides

All of us have a responsibility to work for the day when the mothers of Israelis and Palestinians can see their children…

— Barack Obama

Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote,…

— Desiderius Erasmus

Is success just about winning? Acclaim? Trophies? Wealth? Our personal happiness or satisfaction? I have been blessed to experience some of these…

— Tom Osborne