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In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.
- Carruthers, Charles Edwin
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Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli

2.
You're never s good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.
Holtz, Lou

3.
People who ask for your criticism want only praise.
Maugham, W. Somerset

4.
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
Proverb, Chinese

5.
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
Hammarskjold, Dag

6.
All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
Turner, Ted

7.
Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.
Bible

8.
The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.
Gourmont, Remy De

9.
Each generation produces its squad of moderns with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.
Pollock, Channing

10.
Blame is safer than praise.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

11.
Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!
Jean Sibelius

12.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
Hampton, Christopher

13.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.

14.
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

15.
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

16.
A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
Lowell, James Russell

17.
What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
Cocteau, Jean

18.
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Disraeli, Benjamin

19.
A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made.
Byron, Lord

20.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Richard Pryor

21.
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Wilde, Oscar

22.
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
Kundera, Milan

23.
A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.
Shenstone, William

24.
Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense.
Coen, Ethan

25.
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

26.
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

27.
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

28.
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

29.
A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
Hoffman, Dustin

30.
There are two modes of criticism. One which crushes to earth without mercy all the humble buds of Phantasy, all the plants that, though green and fruitful, are also a prey to insects or have suffered by drought. It weeds well the garden, and cannot believe the weed in its native soil may be a pretty, graceful plant. There is another mode which enters into the natural history of every thing that breathes and lives, which believes no impulse to be entirely in vain, which scrutinizes circumstances, motive and object before it condemns, and believes there is a beauty in natural form, if its law and purpose be understood.
Fuller, Margaret

31.
We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.
Carlyle, Thomas

32.
I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
Smith, Sydney

33.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard

34.
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Collins, Jackie

35.
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
Baudrillard, Jean

36.
A louse in the locks of literature.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred

37.
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

38.
It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.
Wilson, Woodrow T.

39.
It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Woolf, Virginia

40.
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
Erasmus, Desiderius

41.
We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.
Narosky, Jose

42.
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
Johnson, Samuel

43.
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
Sontag, Susan

44.
One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
W. H. Auden

45.
You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn't kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran into him chasing the money changers out of the temple.
Hemingway, Ernest

46.
All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
Nunn, Gregory

47.
Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!
James, Henry

48.
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

49.
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
Picasso, Pablo

50.
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


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