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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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Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
A critic is a man who knows the way, but can't drive the car.
Tynan, Kenneth

2.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard

3.
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

4.
If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?
Slater, Christian

5.
If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.
Lincoln, Abraham

6.
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
Hammarskjold, Dag

7.
The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.
Wilde, Oscar

8.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
Christopher Hampton

9.
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

10.
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
Porchia, Antonio

11.
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

12.
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
Fox, Dr. Emmit

13.
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
Kael, Pauline

14.
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

15.
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse.
Johnson, Samuel

16.
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

17.
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

18.
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

19.
Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

20.
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

21.
Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.
Adorno, Theodor W.

22.
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

23.
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

24.
Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.
Disraeli, Benjamin

25.
A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
Lowell, James Russell

26.
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

27.
Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

28.
Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!
Flagg, Fannie

29.
Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- criticize.

30.
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
Erasmus, Desiderius

31.
Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!
Jean Sibelius

32.
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

33.
If what they are saying about you is true, mend your ways. If it isn't true, forget it, and go on and serve the Lord.
Ironside, H. A.

34.
Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.
Bible

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

36.
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
Harold Rosenberg

37.
Criticism should be a casual conversation.
Auden, W. H.

38.
Critics are already made.
Byron, Lord

39.
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.

40.
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
Steinbeck, John

41.
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

42.
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

43.
It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.
Mencken, H. L.

44.
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

45.
The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
Simms, William Gilmore

46.
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

47.
Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.

48.
As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
James, Clive

49.
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

50.
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


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