| Author |
Quotes |
| Alexander Pope | Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause. |
| Charles Caleb Colton | Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. |
| Edmund Burke | We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation. |
| George Eliot | In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. |
| Greil Marcus | Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations. |
| Gustav Mahler | 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. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world, is the highest applause. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause. |
| Samuel Johnson | The applause of a single human being is of great consequence. |
| Terence Afer | Fare ye well, and give us your applause. |
| William Cowper | O Popular Applause! what heart of man Is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms? |
| William Shakespeare | If thou couldst, doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease, And purge it to a sound and pristine health, I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud you again. |
| William Shakespeare | I'll privily away, I love the people, But do not like to stage me to their eyes, Though it do well, I do not relish well Their loud applause and aves vehement, Nor do I think the man of safe discretion That does not affect it. |
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