quotations about applause
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world, is the highest applause.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Nature
If a man accepts applause when people like what he does, he should accept hissing from people who don't like what he does.
LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI
attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes
The applause of the crowd makes the head giddy, but the attestation of the reasonable man makes the heart glad.
RICHARD STEELE
The Spectator
The movies enable an actor not only to act, but also to sit down in the theater and clap for himself.
WILL ROGERS
attributed, 20,000 Quips & Quotes
They threw their caps
As they would hang them on the horns o' the moon,
Shouting their emulation.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Coriolanus