Applause Quotes - Page 10

• To win applause one must write stuff so simple that a coachman might sing it.

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  Writing, Winning, Simple

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1905). “Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words”

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• A solid and substantial greatness of soul looks down with neglect on the censures and applauses of the multitude.

  Joseph Addison

  Greatness, Soul, Looks

  Joseph Addison (1721). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq”, p.256

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• Beware of your definition of success: If it has more to do with what other people think of you than it does with what you know of your own abilities, you may be confusing applause with achievement.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Success, Thinking, People

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• [W]ork at ridding yourself of the esteem you have had up to now for the glitter and sparkle of virtue and the vain applause of the world, which Our Lord so assiduously avoided and so often recommends us to shun, and that you labor in earnest to acquire true and solid virtues.

  Vincent de Paul

  World, Glitter, Sparkle

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• All this is a dream to me. Everything, the applause, the fans asking for autographs, the trips, all that is a dream.

  Selena

  Dream, Fans, Asking

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• Washington society has always demanded less and given more than any society in this country--demanded less of applause, deference,etiquette, and has accepted as current coin quick wit, appreciative tact, and a talent for talking.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Country, Talking, Quick Wit

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• Like our title song “Clap”, I want to become a singer that receive the applause from all people.

  L.Joe

  Song, People, Titles

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• Most people like praise . . . When it is really deserved, most people expand under it into richer and better selves.

  Joseph P. Farrell

  Self, People, Praise

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• Vanity is really the least bad and most pardonable sort. The vain person wants praise, applause, admiration too much and is always angling for it. It is a fault, but a childlike and even (in an odd way) a humble fault. It shows that you are not yet completely contented with your own admiration. You value other people enough to want them to look at you. You are in fact still human.

  C. S. Lewis

  Humble, Vanity, People

  C. S. Lewis (2012). “The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics”, p.110, HarperCollins UK

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• The praise we give to new comers into the world arises from the envy we bear to those who are established.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Giving, Envy, World

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• The only sure way of avoiding these evils [vanity and boasting] is never to speak of yourself at all. But when, historically, youare obliged to mention yourself, take care not to drop one single word that can directly or indirectly be construed as fishing for applause.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Vanity, Fishing, Evil

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• Display startling novelty-rise afresh like the sun every day. Change too the scene on which you shine, so that you rloss may be felt in the old scenes of your triumph, while the novelty of your powers wins applause in the new.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Winning, Advice, Shining

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.34, Shambhala Publications

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• anybody's applause is better than nobody's.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1857). “The Complete Works of L. E. Landon ...”, p.283

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• Sincere compliments cost nothing and can accomplish much. In any relationship, they are the applause that refreshes.

  Steve Goodier

  Inspirational, Insperational, Cost

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• Silence,--the applause of real and durable impressions.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Real, Silence, Impression

  Alphonse de Lamartine, James B. Runnion (1911). “Graziella: a story of Italian love. Translated ... by James B. Runnion. Sixteen thousand”

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• There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.

  Seneca the Younger

  Ambition, Purple, Luxury

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• Too liberal self-accusations are generally but so many traps for acquittal with applause.

  Samuel Richardson

  Self, Accusation, Traps

  Samuel Richardson (2015). “Pamela Volume 2: Samuel Richardson Collections”, p.243, 谷月社

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• I first felt successful when I was 13 and in a show called "Seesaw." I came offstage and heard the applause of the theater audience and felt a sense of accomplishment. Around that time, my role model for success was Burt Lancaster. He was one of the first actors in Hollywood to start his own production company, and I respected him because he created something he believed in.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Successful, Accomplishment, Role Models

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

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• When, you know, I'm busy and Nancy Pelosi is busy with our mop cleaning up somebody else's mess –- we don't want somebody sitting back saying, you're not holding the mop the right way. Why don't you grab a mop, why don't you help clean up. You're not mopping fast enough. That's a socialist mop. Grab a mop –- let's get to work.

  Barack Obama

  Laughter, Sitting, Want

  "Barack Obama, remarks at University of Michigan". www.politico.com. May 1, 2010.

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• Those of you who speak only English, applaud [audience applause]. Those of you who speak only Spanish, applaud [audience applause]. [In mock incredulity] Then how do you know what I just said?

  Gloria Estefan

  Speak, Said, Audience

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• Dehortations from the use of strong liquors have been the favourite topic of sober declaimers in all ages, and have been received with abundance of applause by water-drinking critics. But with the patient himself, the man that is to be cured, unfortunately their sound has seldom prevailed.

  Charles Lamb

  Strong, Drinking, Men

  Charles Lamb (1856). “The Works of Charles Lamb”, p.271

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• The quicker, the louder, the applause with which another tries to gain you over to his purpose - the bitterer his censure if he miss his aim.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Missing, Trying, Purpose

  "Aphorisms on man. Translated from the original manuscript of the Rev. John Caspar Lavater, citizen of Zuric. ; [One line from Juvenal]" by Johann Kaspar Lavater, 1790.

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• A wise man's kingdom is his own breast: or, if he ever looks farther, it will only be to the judgment of a select few, who are free from prejudices, and capable of examining his work. Nothing indeed can be a stronger presumption of falsehood than the approbation of the multitude; and Phocion, you know, always suspected himself of some blunder when he was attended with the applauses of the populace.

  David Hume

  Wise, Men, Stronger

  David Hume, J. Y. T. Greig (2011). “The Letters of David Hume: 1727-1765”, p.305, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I'm much more interested in making people laugh than getting applause breaks.

  Jim Gaffigan

  People, Laughing, Break

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. February 28, 2006.

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• That's basically what the drive is: "I want to be famous, I want to be noticed, and I want to be approved of." That's basically what you're after. "Give me attention, give me applause, give me an audience. A. A. A. Straight As." That's all you're looking for.

  George Carlin

  Giving, Attention, Want

  Source: www.avclub.com

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