quotations about applause
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
G.C. LICHTENBERG
Aphorisms
Anybody's applause is better than nobody's.
LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON
Francesca Carrara
Applause is like oxygen. It warms your soul and you feel yourself a creator, if only for a half hour.
SERGEI RACHMANINOFF
letter to Marietta Shaginyan
I have been nourished by the sickly food
Of popular applause.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
The Borderers
When most the world applauds you, most beware;
'Tis often less a blessing, than a snare.
EDWARD YOUNG
Love of Fame
We protest against unjust criticism, but we accept unearned applause.
JOSE NAROSKY
Si Todos Los Sueños
Applause is like a vapor. If you've watched someone smoke a long cigar, take a puff then blow the smoke out, what happens after a minute? The smoke is gone. Applause feels great while it lasts, but if you want more, you've got to earn it.
FRANK MCKINLEY
"The Power of Applause", May 12, 2012
When an audience shares your prejudices you can always count on their applause.
MARTY RUBIN
attributed, goodreads
There's a new alarm clock on the market for actors. It doesn't ring--it applauds.
E.C. MCKENZIE
14,000 Quips and Quotes
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Lacon
I live for the applause, applause, applause
I live for the applause-plause, live for the applause-plause
Live for the way that you cheer and scream for me
The applause, applause, applause.
LADY GAGA
"Applause", Artpop
Who decides when the applause should die down? It seems like it's a group decision; everyone begins to say to themselves at the same time, "Well, okay, that's enough of that."
GEORGE CARLIN
attributed, The Mammoth Book of Comic Quotes
Unruly murmurs, or ill-timed applause
Wrong the best speaker, and the justest cause.
HOMER
Iliad
I can't hear the critics talking over the applause.
DRAKE
"Congratulations"
Do what manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause;
He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self-made laws.
RICHARD BURTON
The Kasidah
Applause waits on success.
THOMAS FRANCKLIN
Earl of Warwick
Applause is a receipt, not a bill.
ARTUR SCHNABEL
Saturday Review of Literature, September 29, 1951
APPLAUSE, n. The echo of a platitude.
AMBROSE BIERCE
The Devil's Dictionary
Give me that thing that I love (Turn the lights on)
Put your hands up, make 'em touch, touch (Make it real loud)
Give me that thing that I love (Turn the lights on)
Put your hands up, make 'em touch, touch (Make it real loud)
LADY GAGA
"Applause"
Applause, applause!
Vociverous applause
From orchestra to gallery
Could mean a raise in salary.
Give out, give in!--
Be noisy, make a din!
(The manager, he audits our plaudits.)
IRA GERSHWIN
"Applause, Applause"