About Quote by C. C. H. Pounder

We all know that much of what we hear in life is not really so. Canned laughter and 'sweetened' applause have been TV staples…

— Serge Schmemann

There is always a certain noise in applause: even in the applause we give ourselves.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

— Alfred Jarry

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Edmund Burke

Sometimes I wish that applause would come just a bit later, when it is so beautifully hushed that I feel like holding my breath…

— Emanuel Ax

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

— Carol Channing

Applause abates diligence.

— Samuel Johnson

Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the…

— William Shenstone

Applause, it's very nice, of course. But when you're giving, and creating, and then there is the silence of everyone sitting there, listening, waiting,…

— Anna Netrebko

The most iconic applause I've ever seen is from a Michael Jackson show in Japan - his entrance is actually 15 minutes long, and…

— Slowthai

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf

— Elias Canetti