Quotes about Applause

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Response to clapping: "Thank you for ovating."

I've talked to Bill Clinton - he's the ultimate rock star; no one's more charming than him. People clap in a restaurant when he finishes dinner! I don't get that treatment. I get it when I walk onstage, but not when I have dinner.

Don't accept the applause of men, and you won't be destroyed by their criticism.

Because everyone applauds him as a nice, very cosmopolitan Scandinavian who's already forgotten all about the place he comes from.

Happy are the unentitled! Expecting the applause of others is a fool's enterprise! Do yourself a favor and assume nothing. If you go unnoticed, you won't be surprised. If you are noticed, you can celebrate.

But you don't have to change the world to earn the applause of heaven.

I think you need to know that your hope hasn't been in vain. That there will be a happy ending. That when the show is over, you will hear applause.

Applause was designed to bemuse and confuse you until it explodes into a chorus that reminds us why we love pop music.

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? All the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

It was at such moments that for an instant he ceased to be a reasoning machine and betrayed his human love for admiration and applause. The same singularly proud and reserved nature which turned away with disdain from popular notoriety was capable of being moved to its depth by spontaneous wonder and praise from a friend.

To the proud, the applause of the world rings in their ears; to the humble, the applause of heaven warms their hearts.