Motivational Quotes

Criticism

Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.

- Mayor, Federico

Best Quotes about Criticism

The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Christopher Hampton

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

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

Dale Carnegie

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

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

West, Rebecca

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

Burns, Robert

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

Porchia, Antonio

Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.

Native American Proverb

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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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Critics are already made.

Byron, Lord

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In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.

Carruthers, Charles Edwin

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

Mcclung, Nellie

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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

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

Steinbeck, John

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We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.

Narosky, Jose

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Never make the mistake of assuming the critters will beat a path to your door.

Mascotte, John P.

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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

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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

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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

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Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

Cioran, E. M.

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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

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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

Murdoch, Iris

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

James, Henry

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Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

Churchill, Charles

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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

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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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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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Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.

Zeuxis

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He who throws dirt always loses ground.

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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.

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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

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

Ziglar, Zig

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

James, Clive

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Blame is safer than praise.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge

Hill, Napoleon

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To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

James, Henry

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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

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A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.

Shenstone, William

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Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.

Aikman, Leo

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We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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You should not say it is not good. You should say you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.

Whistler, James Mcneill

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Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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