Motivational Quotes

Criticism

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

- Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

Best Quotes about Criticism

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

Kundera, Milan

When everyone is against you, it means you are absolutely wrong -- or you are absolutely right.

Guinon, Albert

Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.

Proverb, German

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Native American Proverb

A sneer is the weapon of the weak.

Lowell, James Russell

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

The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

Simms, William Gilmore

Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.

Simms, William Gilmore

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Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.

Mayor, Federico

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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

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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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To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Elbert Hubbard

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There's a fine line between participation and mockery.

Adams, Scott

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The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.

Smith, Sydney

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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

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

Pollock, Channing

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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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When subjected to the rain of criticism, let?s not curse the rain. Let?s accept it as a part of life. Let?s remember that the more criticism we can successfully handle, the more zest we will experience in our lives.

Sinha, Shall

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If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.

Holtz, Lou

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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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All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.

Nunn, Gregory

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We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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

Cioran, E. M.

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

Fuller, Margaret

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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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I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.

Pound, Ezra

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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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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

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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

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Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Hoffman, Dustin

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Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.

Fiedler, Leslie

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We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.

Narosky, Jose

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Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Mcclung, Nellie

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Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.

Buxton, Charles

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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

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

Kael, Pauline

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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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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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