applause quotes

• Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. (Charles Caleb Colton) [applause]
• Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause. (John Dryden) [fight/applause]
• In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. (George Eliot) [laughter/wisdom/applause]
• The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [silence/thing/applause]
• Applause waits on success. (Benjamin Franklin) [applause]
• Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love. (William Hazlitt) [applause/fear/love]
• One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader. ( Horace) [applause/agreeable]
• The applause of a single human being is of great consequence. (Samuel Johnson) [applause/human/being]
• 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. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg) [applause/demand/spirit]
• If you achieve success, you will get applause, and if you get applause, you will hear it. My advice to you concerning applause is this; enjoy it but never quite believe it. (Robert Montgomery) [willpower/applause/applause/willpower]
• My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it. (Robert Montgomery) [applause]
• Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause. (Alexander Pope) [give/applause]
• Applause is a receipt, not a bill. (Artur Schnabel) [applause]
• An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause. (John Updike) [share/applause]
• When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with such applause in the lecture room, how soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wandered off by myself, in the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, looked up in perfect silence at the stars. (Walt Whitman) [applause/time/time/perfect]
• “I would like you all to give me a round of applause as I have not crashed my car in over 15 months” (Matthew Perry) [give/applause]
• What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it (Bob Dylan) [applause]

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