Motivational Quotes

Criticism

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

Best Quotes about Criticism

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

Each generation produces its squad of moderns with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.

Pollock, Channing

Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.

Ziglar, Zig

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

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

Miller, Henry

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

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

Kundera, Milan

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Benjamin Disraeli

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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.

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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

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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification.

Paglia, Camille

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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

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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.

Proverb, Chinese

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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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Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.

Mayor, Federico

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On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.

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I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.

Barkley, Charles

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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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

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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

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

Franklin P. Jones

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.

Hoffman, Dustin

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A sneer is the weapon of the weak.

Lowell, James Russell

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Blame is safer than praise.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

Harold Rosenberg

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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

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Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.

Mcclung, Nellie

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Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

Paz, Octavio

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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

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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.

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Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.

Proverb, Chinese

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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.

Klee, Paul

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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.

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People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.

DiCaprio, Leonardo

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

Dale Carnegie

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The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid.

Auden, W. H.

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A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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.

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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

Burns, Robert

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Having a sharp tongue will cut your throat

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The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.

France, Anatole

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There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.

Lewis, Sinclair