Adulation Quotes

• Most of the good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

  Linus Torvalds

  Fun, Work, Program

  "First Monday Interview with Linus Torvalds: What motivates free software developers?". Interview with Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, firstmonday.org. March 2, 1998.

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• The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents — because they have a tame child-creature in their house.

  Frank Zappa

  Children, House, Parent

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation.

  Bill Wyman

  Shadow, Shy, Audience

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• And it was only released in London last week, so when I go back to England Monday or whatever, I am expecting heaps of adulation. I'm hoping there is. If that doesn't happen I will be disappointed.

  David Thewlis

  Monday, London, Lasts

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.

  Lord Byron

  Lying, People, Way

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.2986, Delphi Classics

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• Look, three love affairs in history, are Abelard and Eloise, Romeo and Juliet and the American media and this President at the moment. But this doesn't matter over time. Reality will impinge. If his programs work, he's fine. If it doesn't work, all of the adulation of journalists in the world won't matter.

  George Will

  Love, Reality, Media

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• A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.

  Fawn M. Brodie

  Passion, Government, Insatiable Need

  "Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History". Book by Fawn M. Brodie, ch. 1, 1974.

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• I savour the adulation and love I have been getting from my fans and the blessings of elders in my family. Fourteen years have given me a lot and I can't thank God and the industry enough.

  Akshay Kumar

  Blessing, Years, Thank God

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We do this for the art, not the adulation. I'd rather our music get liked and we get ignored. I don't want to be adored for anything other than the music.

  Andy Partridge

  Art, Want, Ignored

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• I wanted to play drums because I fell in love with the glitter and the lights, but it wasn't about adulation. It was being up there playing.

  Charlie Watts

  Light, Play, Glitter

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.

  Edmund Burke

  Kings, People, Flattery

  Edmund Burke (1826). “The Works of Edmund Burke”, p.37

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• If you are lucky enough to be a success, by all means enjoy the applause and the adulation of the public. But never, never believe it.

  Robert Montgomery

  Believe, Mean, Lucky

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Ambition, Forever, Ambitious

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• Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.

  William James

  God, Vision, Essentials

  Dr. William James (2013). “The William James Reader”, p.600, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every reason and supervision for adulation is lacking.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Believe

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2013). “The Art of War and the Prince”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• No adulation; 'tis the death of virtue; Who flatters, is of all mankind the lowest Save he who courts the flattery.

  Hannah More

  Flattery, Virtue, Court

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.342

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• Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation.

  Walter Lippmann

  Criticism, Littles, Endure

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with praises, flattery and adulation and to invest him with all the Christian graces. If autobiography, the same plan is followed, but the writer apologizes for it.

  Carolyn Wells

  Christian, Grace, Biographies

  Carolyn Wells (1937). “The Rest of My Life”

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• I remember being in Atlantic City once when I was 18 or 19, and a sea of people were screaming and pulling their hair because I was there. It was weird. Nobody deserves adulation like that. I tried to explain it to my kids once. I said, 'Mommy used to be kind of cool, kind of like a Britney Spears.

  Genie Francis

  Kids, Hair, Sea

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• Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

  Edmund Burke

  Flattery, Giver, Flattering

  Edmund Burke (1790). “Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris”, p.9

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• The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation.

  Abraham Maslow

  Self Esteem, Healthy, Fame

  Abraham H. Maslow (1970). “Motivation and Personality”

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• The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would think you would be a performer partly so you could feel all the appreciation or adulation, but I haven't quite managed that yet.

  Michelle Shocked

  Appreciation, Thinking, Would Be

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• Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph. In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war. It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist.

  George Orwell

  War, Party, Intelligent

  George Orwell (1983). “1984”, p.416, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All that is good is ours not by right but by the sheer bounty of a gracious God

  Brennan Manning

  Gracious, Charismatic, Sheer

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.17, Multnomah

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• Las Vegas is a city of kickbacks. A desert city of greased palms. A place where a $20 bill can buy approval, a $100 bill adulation and $1,000 canonization.

  Nicholas Pileggi

  Vegas, Cities, Desert

  Nicholas Pileggi (2016). “Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas”, p.47, Open Road Media

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