The breath of popular applause. [ Herrick ]
Fame is the breath of popular applause. [ Herrick ]
The applause of the people is a blast of air. [ Proverb ]
They threw their caps
As they would hang them on the horns of the moon,
Shouting their emulation. [ William Shakespeare ]
Every ear is tickled with the sweet music of applause. [ Barrow ]
Silence, - the applause of real and durable impressions. [ Lamartine ]
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence. [ Dr. Johnson ]
A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit. [ Hannah More ]
I would applaud thee to the very echo, that should applaud again. [ William Shakespeare ]
A universal applause is seldom less than two thirds of a scandal. [ L'Estrange ]
O popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms? [ Cowper ]
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world is the highest applause. [ Emerson ]
Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows vain persons than virtuous ones. [ Bacon ]
The praise we give to new comers into the world arises from the envy we bear to those who are established. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman runs away with the applause. [ Lord Karnes ]
When the million applaud you, seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; when they censure you, what good! [ Colton ]
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. [ Colton ]
Applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable. [ Shenstone ]
Neither human applause nor human censure is to be taken as the test of truth; but either should set us upon testing ourselves. [ Bishop Whately ]
You may fail to shine, in the opinion of others, both in your conversation and actions, from being superior as well as inferior to them. [ Greville ]
Applause waits on success: the fickle multitude, like the light straw that floats along the street, glide with the current still, and follow fortune. [ Franklin ]
The effusions of genius are entitled to admiration rather than applause, as they are chiefly the effect of natural endowment, and sometimes appear to be almost involuntary. [ W. B. Clulow ]
Such a noise arose as the shroud? make at sea in a stiff tempest, as loud and to as many tunes, - hats, cloaks, doublets, I think, flew up; and had their faces been loose, this day they had been lost. [ William Shakespeare ]
Praise or Applause? We express our approbation by praise and applause. Praise is the general, applause, the specific term. Applause springs from impulse, while praise is the result of reason and reflection. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]
It is harder to avoid censure than to gain applause; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age. Rut to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing. [ Hume ]
To be forward to praise others implies either great eminence, that can afford to part with applause; or great quickness of discernment, with confidence in our own judgments; or great sincerity and love of truth, getting the better of our self-love. [ Hazlitt ]
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart; his next, to escape the censures of the world. If the last interferes with the former, it ought to be entirely neglected; but otherwise there cannot be a greater satisfaction to an honest mind, than to see those approbations which it gives itself seconded by the applause of the public. [ Addison ]