Applause Quotes · Page 2

It was all cheese and applause.

— Charles de Lint

Work for a cause not for applause

— Anonymous

From self alone expect applause.

— Marion LeRoy Burton

A round of applause for your article.

— Laptop Review

I need the applause.

— Jerry Lewis

How about a round of applause!

— Dee

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

— Dale Carnegie

Applause is the beginning of abuse

— Ted Hughes

I like audiences and performing and, you know... applause!

— Kelsey Grammer

You can copy, but hold the applause you get the satisfaction of mind can not

— Mak_786

I work for a cause, not for applause. I live life to express, not to impress.

— Cv Pillay

Those who play for applause…Tha t’s all they get.

— Wynton Marsalis

We believe... that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.

— Alfred Jarry

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

— Drake

The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The hoopla, the applause, the praises have never excited me.

— Martin Yan

Anyone who hears enough laughter and applause at a young age will become an actor, whether they intend to or not.

— John Lithgow

“I don't expect congratulations for successful beginning, what I want is the applaud at successful ending.”

— Amit Kalantri

You'll hear a lot of applause in your life, but none will mean more to you than that applause from your peers.…

— Andre Agassi

“I could see you drop dead this minute from paralysis of the brain cells and burst into uninhibited applause.”

— Dorothy Dunnett

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

— John Updike

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

— Warren Buffett

Oh, how thunderous the applause must be in Heaven, all those times we are mocked on earth for the sake of His…

— Mark Hart

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

— Ivor Novello

Affectation proceeds from one of these two causes,--vanity or hypocrisy; for as vanity puts us on affecting false characters, in order to…

— Henry Fielding

“Glory ought to be the consequence, not the motive, of our actions; and although it happen not to attend the worthy deed,…

— Pliny the Younger

So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage.…

— Suzanne Collins

I respect the opinion of the fans, I am a professional and I have to. However, when they jeer and applaud, I…

— Victor Valdes

So... A 8 year old girl came up to me today explaining what a round of applause is... 'Where you clap in…

— Leanne Davis

The brave man seeks not popular applause, Nor, overpower'd with arms, deserts his cause; Unsham'd, though foil'd, he does the best he…

— John Dryden

Being in front of a live audience is like taking an steroid shot. The applause, the claps in each and every dialogue…

— Puneet Issar

I allow myself to honor the man who fought in moments when he had no strength to impose himself, until he managed…

— Pope Francis

“In due course I would learn how to cover up for this event, but on that awful day I knew of nothing…

— Karen Pryor

Vanity is really the least bad and most pardonable sort. The vain person wants praise, applause, admiration too much and is always…

— C. S. Lewis

Droplets, droplets: We are all identical drips and drops of people, hovering, waiting to be tipped, waiting for someone to show us…

— Lauren Oliver

I can't really hear the audience applause when I'm on stage. I'm totally immersed in the piece. But sometimes I get a…

— Judith Jamison

Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like…

— Margaret Atwood

We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies, Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses…

— Julia Ward Howe

As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military…

— Edward Gibbon

If experience be consulted, it will be found there is no action, however abominable, that has not received the applause of some…

— Baron d'Holbach