Applause Quote by Franz Grillparzer

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

— Rudolf Bing

One learns to ignore criticism by first learning to ignore applause.

— Robert Breault

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

Don't accept the applause of men, and you won't be destroyed by their criticism.

— Reinhard Bonnke

Applause is an instinctive, unconscious act expressing the sympathy between actors and audience. Just as our art demands more instinct than intellect in its…

— Ellen Terry

“Applause has made a fool of more men than criticism.”

— Bob Edwards

Modesty is silent when it would be improper to speak; the humble, without being called upon, never recollects to say anything of himself.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

There is no applause that so flatters a man as that which he wrings from unwilling throats.

— Ouida

Applause abates diligence.

— Samuel Johnson

I don't like applause, I must admit. Ultimately, artists are shy creatures; they're introverts.

— Cat Stevens

“Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction where it was never meant to be. A…

— G. K. Chesterton

It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause.

— David Hume