#applause

I did not approve of your action—I was merely congratulating myself. What you mistook for clapping was merely me giving myself multiple high fives.
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— Jarod Kintz

#applaud #applause #approve #clap #clapping

When I got through, Duke Ellington stood up and started the applause. ↗

— Ruth Brown

#duke #duke ellington #ellington #got #i

Laughter is much more important than applause. Applause is almost a duty. Laughter is a reward. ↗

— Carol Channing

#applause #duty #important #laughter #more

Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#attentive #give #his #laws #like

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. ↗

— Alec Waugh

#confident #desires #doubting #himself #his

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 it. ↗

— William Feather

#applause #because #bound #gets #himself

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#deaf #else #listens #only #success

O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms? ↗

— William Cowper

#applause #charms #heart #man #popular

I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off. ↗

— Jim Dale

#applause #because #boy #burst #clap

There is nothing that compares to an unexpected round of applause. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#compares #nothing #round #unexpected