Motivational Quotes
Criticism
Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Best Quotes about Criticism
Having a sharp tongue will cut your throat
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
Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.
Bible
Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
Buxton, Charles
No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.
Olivier, Sir Lawrence
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli
I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
Smith, Sydney
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Collins, Jackie
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
Burns, Robert
A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.
Shenstone, William
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
West, Rebecca
A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
Lowell, James Russell
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.
A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
Mizner, Wilson
They condemn what they do not understand.
Cicero, Marcus T.
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
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
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.
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
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
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
Sontag, Susan
Critics are already made.
Byron, Lord
The great critic must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.
Maugham, W. Somerset
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
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
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
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
If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
Holtz, Lou
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
Porchia, Antonio
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
Rostand, Jean
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
Hammarskjold, Dag
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
Schlegel, Friedrich
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
Erasmus, Desiderius
Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.
Aikman, Leo
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
Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De
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
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
If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Lincoln, Abraham
Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
Conrad, Joseph
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
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
Satire is often the reflection of a kind of moral nausea.
Briton, Crand
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
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
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Wilde, Oscar
He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.
Cicero, Marcus T.
The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.
Gourmont, Remy De
Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticizing. Criticism can never be a science: it is, in the first place, much too personal, and in the second, it is concerned with values that science ignores. The touchstone is emotion, not reason. We judge a work of art by its effect on our sincere and vital emotion, and nothing else. All the critical twiddle-twaddle about style and form, all this pseudoscientific classifying and analyzing of books in an imitation-botanical fashion, is mere impertinence and mostly dull jargon.
Lawrence, D. H.
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