“He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public; he that hisses in malice or sport, is an oppressor and a robber”
Samuel Johnson
“Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.”
William Orville Douglas
“He will not be jeered. He will not be hissed. People will say good job, but we can't have you supporting our Supreme Court.”
Chuck Hurley
“Then suddenly out of the gloom came a sharp hiss. 'What has it got in its pocketses?'”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.”
Victor Hugo
“An eye can threaten like a loaded and levelled gun, or it can insult like hissing or kicking; or, in its altered mood, by beams of kindness, it can make the heart dance for joy”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwellingplace for dragons, an astonishment, and an hissing, without an inhabitant.”
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