“Applause is a receipt, not a bill.â€
Dale Carnegie
“The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.â€
Baltasar Gracian
“The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .â€
Dale Carnegie
“The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause.â€
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Applause waits on success.â€
Benjamin Franklin
“Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.â€
Elmer Davis
“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.â€
Judy Garland
“Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.â€
Edmund Burke
“Evil report carries further than any applauseâ€
Baltasar Gracian
“Any man who makes a speech more than six times a year is bound to repeat himself, not because he has little to say, but because he wants applause and the old stuff gets itâ€
William Feather
“In the vain laughter of folly, wisdom hears half its applause.â€
T.S. Eliot
“Popular applause veers with the wind.â€
John Bright
“Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause.â€
Rudolf Bing
“A man desires praise that he may be reassured, that he may be quit of his doubting of himself; he is indifferent to applause when he is confident of success.â€
Alec Waugh
“Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.â€
Alfred Jarry