Applause Quotes. Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922

Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922.

Applause


Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. C. C. Colton—Lacon. P. 205.	1
O Popular Applause! what heart of man Is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms? Cowper—Task. Bk. II. L. 431.	2
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world, is the highest applause. Emerson—An Address. July 15, 1838.	3
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence. Samuel Johnson—Boswell’s Life of Johnson. (1780).	4
Like Cato, give his little senate laws, And sit attentive to his own applause. Pope—Prologue to the Satires. L. 207.	5
They threw their caps As they would hang them on the horns o’ the moon, Shouting their emulation. Coriolanus. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 216.	6
I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud again. Macbeth. Act V. Sc. 3. L. 53.	7
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 affect it. Measure for Measure. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 68.	8
Vos valete et plaudite. Fare ye well, and give us your applause. Terence. Last words of several comedies. See his Eunuchus V. 9. 64.	9