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Letter "A" » applause
«In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.»
«I would like you all to give me a round of applause as I have not crashed my car in over 15 months»
«If a tree falls in a forest and lands on a politician, even if you can't hear the tree or the screams, I'll bet you'd at least hear the applause»
Author: Paul Tindale
| Keywords:
applause, bet, falls, forest, I Bet You, lands, politician, screams
«Expressions of disapproval are on a level of vulgarity that cannot be tolerated. The way to express disapproval is to do without applause.»
Author: Rudolf Bing
(Administrator)
| About:
Vulgarity
| Keywords:
applause, A level, disapproval, expressions, tolerated, vulgarity, without expression
«My advice to you concerning applause is this: enjoy it but never quite believe it.»
«Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.»
Author: Desiderius Erasmus
(Editor, Humanist, Priest)
| Keywords:
applause, approval, bronze, bronzed, casting vote, effigy, presents, self-satisfied, stand for, stand in, stare, The Crowd, the market
«Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause.»
«In the vain laughter of folly, wisdom hears half its applause.»
«Laissez-faire, Supply-and-demand, - one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egoism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause: it is the Gospel of Despair!»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
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applause, egoism, gospel, laissez faire, money supply, ravenous, Supply and demand
«O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?»
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