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No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.
- Carlyle, Thomas
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Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
They condemn what they do not understand.
Cicero, Marcus T.

2.
In reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.
Fielding, Henry

3.
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

4.
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

5.
When the critics come around it's always too late.
Nolan, Sir Sidney

6.
Having a sharp tongue will cut your throat

7.
Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

8.
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic -- a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.
Wilde, Oscar

9.
The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
Simms, William Gilmore

10.
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

11.
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
France, Anatole

12.
In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.
Carruthers, Charles Edwin

13.
A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
Hoffman, Dustin

14.
Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

15.
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
Fox, Dr. Emmit

16.
The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art -- and, by analogy, our own experience -- more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.
Sontag, Susan

17.
Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

18.
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
Rostand, Jean

19.
After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
Edith Wharton

20.
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.
Johnson, Samuel

21.
Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.
Wolfe, Thomas

22.
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones

23.
Let me walk three weeks in the footsteps of my enemy, carry the same burden, have the same trials as he, before I say one word to criticize.

24.
Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
Conrad, Joseph

25.
Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Jones, Franklin P.

26.
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
Murdoch, Iris

27.
Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.
Kundera, Milan

28.
He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.
Cicero, Marcus T.

29.
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
Thoreau, Henry David

30.
All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
Nunn, Gregory

31.
All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.
Hemingway, Ernest

32.
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

33.
Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
Miller, Henry

34.
Nothing would improve newspaper criticism so much as the knowledge that it was to be read by men too hardy to acquiesce in the authoritative statement of the reviewer.
Hutton, R. H.

35.
One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
Moliere

36.
Never make the mistake of assuming the critters will beat a path to your door.
Mascotte, John P.

37.
What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
Cocteau, Jean

38.
There is an air of last things, a brooding sense of impending annihilation, about so much deconstructive activity, in so many of its guises; it is not merely postmodernist but preapocalyptic.
Lehman, David

39.
I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.
Pound, Ezra

40.
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Epictetus

41.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Churchill, Winston

42.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Richard Pryor

43.
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
Beecher, Henry Ward

44.
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
Raphael, Frederic

45.
The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being.
Little, Lynn M.

46.
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred

47.
Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.
Fiedler, Leslie

48.
A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.
Frye, Northrop

49.
Blame is safer than praise.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

50.
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
Fuller, Margaret


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