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Tag Name "Applause" (210)

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Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier idols.
George Eliot
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Display startling novelty-rise afresh like the sun every day. Change too the scene on which you shine, so that you rloss may be felt in the old scenes of your triumph, while the novelty of your powers wins applause in the new.
Baltasar Gracian
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It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. But to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing
David Hume
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A story should, to please, at least seem true, Be apropos, well told, concise, and new: And whenso'er it deviates from these rules, The wise will sleep, and leave applause to fools.
Benjamin Stillingfleet
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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.
Golda Meir
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There's a huge difference between the shallow pleasure of instant applause and the long-lasting impact of true connection.
Seth
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I am bit sending messages with my feet. All I ever wanted was not to come up empty. I did it for the dough and the old applause.
Fred Astaire
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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 me go.
Eartha Kitt
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Proportion thy charity to the strength of thine estate, lest God proportion thine estate to the weakness of thy charity. Let the lips of the poor be the trumpet of thy gift, lest in seeking applause, thou lose thy reward. Nothing is more pleasing to God than an open hand and a closed mouth.
Francis Quarles
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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
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Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.
William Hazlitt
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To win applause one must write stuff so simple that a coachman might sing it.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
George Eliot
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Washington society has always demanded less and given more than any society in this country--demanded less of applause, deference,etiquette, and has accepted as current coin quick wit, appreciative tact, and a talent for talking.
M. E. W. Sherwood
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I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time
Thucydides
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From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That's my world. I love it. I enjoy it. I live for it.
Erykah Badu
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anybody's applause is better than nobody's.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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I appreciate your applause, but I don't do it for applause. I do it for cash, it's much better.
Eddie Izzard
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For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, 'Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she's rocking it right now.'
Olivia Munn
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So instead of acknowledging applause, I stand there unmoving while they take part in the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone. All of this is wrong.
Suzanne Collins
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People come into public life for different reasons. None of us are ego-challenged, I think, or we probably wouldn't be doing what we're doing, so if anyone tells you that they don't like the sound of the applause and the ego gratification, I don't think they're being straight with you.
Evan Bayh
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The hardest thing is to endure the applause of fools, and patiently suffer the booing, while with the bravissimo of the foolish one would rather strike them between the ears.
Carl Maria von Weber
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The applause and the favour of our fellow-men Fan even a spark of genius to a flame.
Ovid
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The applause was so loud and insistent that I had to respond with several encores. I was numb with happiness, when it was over, I knew that this alone must be my life and my world.
Leni Riefenstahl
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