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We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.
- Narosky, Jose
Criticism Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
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

2.
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
Murdoch, Iris

3.
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Collins, Jackie

4.
Satire is often the reflection of a kind of moral nausea.
Briton, Crand

5.
Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.
Kundera, Milan

6.
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.

7.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
Roosevelt, Eleanor

8.
Having a sharp tongue will cut your throat

9.
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

10.
Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.

11.
Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.
Bible

12.
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
Proverb, Chinese

13.
Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.
Mayor, Federico

14.
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

15.
I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always somebody saying you can't do it, and those people have to be ignored.
Cartwright, Bill

16.
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

17.
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

18.
A critic is a man who knows the way, but can't drive the car.
Tynan, Kenneth

19.
When the critics come around it's always too late.
Nolan, Sir Sidney

20.
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

21.
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.
Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.
Proverb, German

23.
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

24.
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

25.
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

26.
When everyone is against you, it means you are absolutely wrong -- or you are absolutely right.
Guinon, Albert

27.
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

28.
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
Porchia, Antonio

29.
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
Fuller, Margaret

30.
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

31.
He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.
Cicero, Marcus T.

32.
What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
Cocteau, Jean

33.
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
Kundera, Milan

34.
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

35.
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Paz, Octavio

36.
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

37.
Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.
Mcclung, Nellie

38.
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
Steinbeck, John

39.
Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

40.
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.

41.
Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Jones, Franklin P.

42.
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
Baudelaire, Charles

43.
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones

44.
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

45.
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

46.
As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
James, Clive

47.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard

48.
I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
Hugo, Victor

49.
A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
Hoffman, Dustin

50.
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Epictetus


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