Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Applause that comes thundering with such force you might think the audience merely suffers the music as an excuse for its ovations.

Fare ye well, and give us your applause. [Lat., Vos valete et plaudite.]

I'll privily away; 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 not affect it.

If thou couldst, doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease, And purge it to a sound and pristine health, I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud you again.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

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

O Popular Applause! what heart of man Is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?

The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.