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Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
- Steinbeck, John
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Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
La Bruyere, Jean De

2.
Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.
Native American Proverb

3.
Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticizing. Criticism can never be a science: it is, in the first place, much too personal, and in the second, it is concerned with values that science ignores. The touchstone is emotion, not reason. We judge a work of art by its effect on our sincere and vital emotion, and nothing else. All the critical twiddle-twaddle about style and form, all this pseudoscientific classifying and analyzing of books in an imitation-botanical fashion, is mere impertinence and mostly dull jargon.
Lawrence, D. H.

4.
Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.
Mayor, Federico

5.
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge
Hill, Napoleon

6.
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
Fox, Dr. Emmit

7.
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.
Galbraith, John Kenneth

8.
I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
Smith, Sydney

9.
Critics are already made.
Byron, Lord

10.
Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.
Kundera, Milan

11.
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
Keats, John

12.
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
Updike, John

13.
One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
W. H. Auden

14.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Eleanor Roosevelt

15.
For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse -- why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

16.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Richard Pryor

17.
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
Hammarskjold, Dag

18.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
Roosevelt, Eleanor

19.
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
Lawrence, D. H.

20.
Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

21.
I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.
Aragon, Louis

22.
He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.
Cicero, Marcus T.

23.
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
Benjamin, Walter

24.
The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic.
Fiedler, Leslie

25.
A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
Hoffman, Dustin

26.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.

27.
A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.
Shenstone, William

28.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli

29.
You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
Maugham, W. Somerset

30.
The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
Benjamin, Walter

31.
Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!
Meir, Golda

32.
The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.
Wilde, Oscar

33.
Give me the critic bred in Nature's school, who neither talks by rote, nor thinks by rule; who feeling's honest dictates still obeys, and dares, without a precedent, to praise.
Shee, Sir Martin Archer

34.
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
Baudelaire, Charles

35.
The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.
James, Clive

36.
One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving that modern art is meaningless. They have put into practice the notion that a bad art work cleverly interpreted according to some obscure Method is more rewarding than a masterpiece wrapped in silence.
Rosenberg, Harold

37.
It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's mature critics often are.
Walker, Alice

38.
There's a fine line between participation and mockery.
Adams, Scott

39.
Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
Pope, Alexander

40.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard

41.
A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.
Tynan, Kenneth

42.
Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

43.
The great critic must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.
Maugham, W. Somerset

44.
Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

45.
What we ask of him is, that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves. He must have the passion of a lover.
Symons, Arthur

46.
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
Orwell, George

47.
A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
Williams, Bern

48.
All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
Turner, Ted

49.
Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.
Dahlberg, Edward

50.
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Epictetus


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