Applause Quotes

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

Dale Carnegie

Bills, Receipts

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The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

Dale Carnegie

Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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Every ear is tickled with the sweet music of applause.

Isaac Barrow

Sweet, Ears, Praise

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Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.

Martin Yan

Meaningful, Believe, People

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

Lynn Abbey

Literature, Unexpected, Compare

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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Edmund Burke

Encouraging, Encouragement, Mind

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Applause waits on success.

Benjamin Franklin

Success, Congratulations, Reality

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In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

Judy Garland

Love, Good Night, Men

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it

Robert Montgomery

Clever, Believe, Advice

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You must be prepared to work always without applause.

Ernest Hemingway

Appreciation, Work, Novelists

Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.1053, Simon and Schuster

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Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward.

Carol Channing

Happiness, Appreciation, Laughter

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

Alfred Jarry

Silence, Kind, Silence Is

Katharine Noel, Alfred Jarry (2007). “Selected works of Alfred Jarry”, Grove Pr

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Soul of the age! The applause! delight! The wonder of our stage!

Ben Jonson

Soul, Age, Delight

'To the Memory of My Beloved, The Author, Mr William Shakespeare' (1623)

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

Elias Canetti

Deaf

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Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

Alfred Jarry

Thinking, Suffering, Ovation

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Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys.

Golda Meir

Artist, Storm, Bouquets

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The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.

Gustav Mahler

Depressing, Stars, Way In Life

Alma Mahler, Gustav Mahler, Donald Mitchell, Knud Martner (1973). “Gustav Mahler: memories and letters”, John Murray Publishers

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Nobody kicks on being interrupted if it's by applause.

Kin Hubbard

Literature, Kicks, Ifs

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O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou has no name to be known by, let us call thee devil....O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!

William Shakespeare

Wine, Men, Names

'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [293]

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

Brenda Lee

Who I Am, Sound, Stills

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The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.

James Otis

Country, Sacrifice, Men

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Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause.

John Dryden

Kings, Fighting, Empires

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I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off.

Jim Dale

Kids, Boys, Saws

"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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Applause should be an emotional response to the music, rather than a regulated social duty.

Emanuel Ax

Emotional, Social, Should

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The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

Baltasar Gracian

Jealousy, Winning, Envy

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