Applause Quote by Bertrand Russell

If you walk into a room and one hundred people say, 'You are a lovely, beautiful person', who isn't going to be affected by…

— Joaquin Phoenix

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

— Edmund Burke

The court of public opinion should not matter, but we're all human. And sometimes things sting. But I think you have to be willing…

— Erika Jayne

People who love the applause should have it, but I don't care for it.

— Ry Cooder

Applause is the most powerful thing... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.

— C. C. H. Pounder

I appreciate your applause, but I don't do it for applause. I do it for cash, it's much better.

— Eddie Izzard

The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in…

— Howard Zinn

My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it

— Anonymous

The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

— Emanuel Ax

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

— Elmer Davis

It is a dangerous thing for the perfecting of our minds to gain applause by works that do not call forth the whole of…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg