Admiration Quote by William Benton Clulow

Applause abates diligence.

— Samuel Johnson

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

— Edmund Burke

Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please.

— Isaac Mayer Wise

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

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

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

— Cat Stevens

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

The hunger for applause is the source for all conscious literature and heroism

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Such immense power, such unsearchable wisdom, and such exuberant goodness, as may justly ravish us to an amazement, rather than a base admiration.

— Robert Boyle

“There are three things admiration affirms; the lack of autonomy, the senility of the mind, and the strength of desperation. Irrationality and inferiority are…

— Lionel Suggs

Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius.

— Isaac D'Israeli

Was genius ever ungrateful? Mere talents are dry leaves, tossed up and down by gusts of passion, and scattered and swept away; but, Genius…

— Walter Savage Landor