Applause Quote by Ouida

There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause.

— Lynn Abbey

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 abates diligence.

— Samuel Johnson

A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There's no amount of applause that is going to make you happy.

— Simon Amstell

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

— Bob Edwards

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

anybody's applause is better than nobody's.

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.

— Alec Guinness

“After the elections, voters are never given an applause.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause.

— David Hume