Applause Quotes

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage.

If anyone ever boos you off stage, that is simply applause from ghosts.

I have been trying to find out exactly when listeners and performers decided that applause between movements would not be allowed, but nobody seems to have been willing to admit that they were the culprit.

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.

Applause is a receipt, not a note of demand.

We should welcome applause whenever it comes.

It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause.

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

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf

Occasionally if you do something extraordinary, the crew responds with spontaneous applause, but that's very rare.

We are full of rhythms . . . our pulse, our gestures, our digestive tracts, the lunar and seasonal cycles.

I still sing because I love the sound of applause, because it's who I am, and because I still can.

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

So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.

Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable.

Beware [of] the investment activity that produces applause; the great moves are usually greeted by yawns.

When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause.

A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal

There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else.

Evil report carries further than any applause.

There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause.

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.

Old men need applause too.

The applause of silence. is the only kind that counts.