Applause Quote by George Eliot Download Open image “In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.” — George Eliot ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Applause Folly Half Laughter Vain Wisdom
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Laugh as loud as you please at your companion's wit; do not even smile at his folly. — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I've always accepted applause as making me feel worthwhile. I hope I die being applauded. Just put a chaise longue under me and let… — Eartha Kitt Copy Share Image
Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward. — Carol Channing Copy Share Image
Oh, how thunderous the applause must be in Heaven, all those times we are mocked on earth for the sake of His name. — Mark Hart Copy Share Image
Being cheerful and affable with people is by itself half of wisdom. — Ja'far al-Sadiq Copy Share Image
There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“[W]e must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Mr. Casaubon had never had a strong bodily frame, and his soul was sensitive without being enthusiastic: it was too languid to thrill out… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“... she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that "men would be so", and viewing the stronger sex… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But let the wise be warned against too great readiness at explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“But any one watching keenly the stealthy convergence of human lots, sees a slow preparation of effects from one life on another, which tells… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I don't crave applause. I'm not one of those guys who comes alive on stage. I'm much more alive at home, I think. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
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“An applause is not just the recognition of good performance, but its proof of being different than the crowd.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
“i nod to the other will grayson, up onstage. he nods to me. we have something between us, him and me. but the truth?… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
All the shows we did pre-airdate, and I'd come out - "Rob Lowe!" - and it was [Offers bored applause.] After the show aired?… — Rob Lowe Copy Share Image
“Those who do soul work, who want the searing truth more than solace or applause, know each other right away. Those who want something… — Rumi Copy Share Image
It is clear that the future of freedom and peace depend on the actions of America. This nation is freedom's home, and freedom's defender.… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
If anyone ever boos you off stage, that is simply applause from ghosts. — Sharon Needles Copy Share Image
“A magician must always value his magic effects more than himself, because after few years audience may not remember his name but they will… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
The beauteous dragonfly's dancing By the waves of the rivulet glancing; She dances here and she dances there, The glimmering, glittering flutterer fair. Full… — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image