Applause Quote by Hannah More Download Open image “A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.” — Hannah More ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Applause Betray Cold Envious Envy Slowness Spirit Temper
Convulsive anger storms at large; or pale And silent, settles into full revenge. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
Tis a barbarous temper, and a sign of a very ill nature, to take delight in shocking any one: and, on the contrary, it is the mark of an amiable and a beneficent temper, to say all the kind things one can, without flattery or playing the hypocrite,--and what never fails of procuring the love and esteem of every one;… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share
A man that loves to be peevish and paramount, and to play the sovereign at every turn, does but blast the blessings of life, and swagger away his own enjoyments; and not to enlarge upon not folly, not to mention the injustice of such a behavior, it is always the sign of a little, unbenevolent temper. It is disease and… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share
“When the first force, social feeling and community expectation, is ignored or affronted, the person concerned will reveal certain aggressive character traits: vanity, ambition, envy, jealousy, playing God, or greed; or nonaggressive traits: withdrawal, anxiety, timidity, or absence of social graces. When any of these forces gains the upper hand, it is usually because of deep-seated feelings of inadequacy. Yet… — Tom Butler-Bowdon Copy Share
Heat and animosity, contest and conflict, may sharpen the wits, although they rarely do; they never strengthen the understanding, clear the perspicacity, guide the… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject to its… — Samuel Freeman Miller Copy Share Image
Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small slights or defeats but to be given to retaliation and revenge, and easily moved to anger by any chance deed or word. Ill-temper is accompanied by excitability of character, instability, bitter speech, and liability to take offence at… — Aristotle Copy Share
There is "a mental fatigue which is a spurious kind of remorse, and has all the anguish of the nobler feeling. It is an… — Mary Elizabeth Braddon Copy Share Image
The difficult part of good temper consists in forbearance, and accommodation to the ill-humors of others. — William Empson Copy Share Image
The anger of slow, mild, loving people has a lasting quality that mere bad-tempered folk cannot understand. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that there is no affection of the human heart more exquisitely pure, than that which is felt by a grateful son… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Yes, thou art ever present, power divine; not circumscribed by time, nor fixed by space, confined to altars, nor to temples bound. In wealth,… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
He who has once taken to drink can seldom be said to be guilty of one sin only. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
We are too ready to imagine that we are religious, because we know something of religion. We appropriate to ourselves the pious sentiments we… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
A corrupt practice may be abolished, but a soiled imagination is not easily cleansed. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Oh! the joy Of young ideas painted on the mind, In the warm glowing colors fancy spreads On objects not yet known, when all… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
If we commit any crime, or do any good here, it must be in thought; for our words are few and our deeds none… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
nothing is more common than to mistake the sign for the thing itself; nor is any practice more frequent than that of endeavoring to… — Hannah More 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
“In due course I would learn how to cover up for this event, but on that awful day I knew of nothing to say… — Karen Pryor Copy Share Image
“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