Applause Quote by George Washington

An appeal to a goodness which is not in him is, to a vain and sensitive soul, a stinging insult.

— Frederick Rolfe

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

There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.

— Michel de Montaigne

The word is a sign or symbol of the impressions or affections of the soul.

— Aristotle

“A few words which he wanted to emphasize were put into brackets or set off by quotation marks. My first impulse was to point…

— Jean Genet

“ Marginalia Sometimes the notes are ferocious, skirmishes against the author raging along the borders of every page in tiny black script. If I…

— Billy Collins

I do believe that as you write more and age, the arrogance and most of the vanity goes. Or it is a vanity met…

— Barry Hannah

It is a mark of civilised man that he seeks to understand his traditions, and to criticise them, not to swallow them whole.

— Moses Finley

When an audience does not complain, it is a compliment, and when it does, it is a compliment, too, if unaccompanied by violence.

— Mark Twain

Vanity is a mark of humility rather than of pride.

— Jonathan Swift

What I do with impressions, I try not to be mean-spirited. To me, it's just about being silly.

— Paul F. Tompkins

Of all sorts of flattery, that which comes from a solemn character and stands before a sermon is the worst-complexioned. Such commendation is a…

— Jeremy Collier