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Criticism

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.
- Edwards, Tryon
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Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

2.
Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
Miller, Henry

3.
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

4.
Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.
Kundera, Milan

5.
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

6.
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

7.
No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.
Carlyle, Thomas

8.
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
Raphael, Frederic

9.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie

10.
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.
Edwards, Tryon

11.
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

12.
Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- criticize.

13.
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

14.
Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.
Zeuxis

15.
A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made.
Byron, Lord

16.
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

17.
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
Proverb, Chinese

18.
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
Addison, Joseph

19.
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

20.
It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence that they should write entertainingly about something which is rarely worth writing about at all.
Chandler, Raymond

21.
A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
Lowell, James Russell

22.
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

23.
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

24.
Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

25.
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
Steinbeck, John

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

27.
A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
Williams, Bern

28.
The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.
Gourmont, Remy De

29.
As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
James, Clive

30.
Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!
James, Henry

31.
Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
Chandler, Raymond

32.
The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.
Gibbon, Edward

33.
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Disraeli, Benjamin

34.
The great critic must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.
Maugham, W. Somerset

35.
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

36.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard

37.
I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always somebody saying you can't do it, and those people have to be ignored.
Cartwright, Bill

38.
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

39.
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
Sontag, Susan

40.
A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
Hoffman, Dustin

41.
They condemn what they do not understand.
Cicero, Marcus T.

42.
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
Steinbeck, John

43.
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
France, Anatole

44.
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

45.
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

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.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
Franklin, Benjamin

48.
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
Fuller, Margaret

49.
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.

50.
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
Baudelaire, Charles


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