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In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
- Congreve, William
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Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
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

2.
When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.
Rowland, Helen

3.
A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
Williams, Bern

4.
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.

5.
Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

6.
A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
Hoffman, Dustin

7.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli

8.
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Cioran, E. M.

9.
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

10.
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
Steinbeck, John

11.
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

12.
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
Baudrillard, Jean

13.
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
Benjamin, Walter

14.
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
France, Anatole

15.
No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.
Carlyle, Thomas

16.
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.

17.
All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
Nunn, Gregory

18.
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
Hammarskjold, Dag

19.
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

20.
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

21.
The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.
Algren, Nelson

22.
A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
Mizner, Wilson

23.
In an age of unscrupulous and shameless book-making, it is a duty to give notice of the rubbish that cumbers the ground. There is no credit, no real power required for this task. It is the work of an intellectual scavenger, and far from being specially honorable.
Hutton, R. H.

24.
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
Baudelaire, Charles

25.
Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.
Berger, John

26.
Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.
Chandler, Raymond

27.
Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe

28.
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
Murdoch, Iris

29.
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

30.
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

31.
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
Proverb, Chinese

32.
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

33.
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
Porchia, Antonio

34.
A critic is a man who knows the way, but can't drive the car.
Tynan, Kenneth

35.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Ziglar, Zig

36.
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

37.
Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.
Dahlberg, Edward

38.
A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, Oh, I don't like it. One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.
Washington, Denzel

39.
That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.
Wilde, Oscar

40.
The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being.
Little, Lynn M.

41.
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Collins, Jackie

42.
Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.
Carnegie, Dale

43.
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

44.
A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made.
Byron, Lord

45.
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

46.
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
Buxton, Charles

47.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
Christopher Hampton

48.
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
Steinbeck, John

49.
The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements.
Man, Paul De

50.
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


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