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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
Criticism Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
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.

2.
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.
Dahlberg, Edward

3.
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Epictetus

4.
If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
Holtz, Lou

5.
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

6.
People who ask for your criticism want only praise.
Maugham, W. Somerset

7.
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
France, Anatole

8.
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world -- though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst -- the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!
Sterne, Laurence

9.
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
Murdoch, Iris

10.
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
Sontag, Susan

11.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.

12.
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.

13.
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

14.
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

15.
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.

16.
Never make the mistake of assuming the critters will beat a path to your door.
Mascotte, John P.

17.
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

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.
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

20.
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Paz, Octavio

21.
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

22.
Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
Henry Fielding

23.
God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature. They won't even whore. They're all virtuous and sterile. And how well meaning and high minded. But they're all camp followers.
Hemingway, Ernest

24.
A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
Mizner, Wilson

25.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie

26.
In an age of unscrupulous and shameless book-making, it is a duty to give notice of the rubbish that cumbers the ground. There is no credit, no real power required for this task. It is the work of an intellectual scavenger, and far from being specially honorable.
Hutton, R. H.

27.
A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
Lowell, James Russell

28.
The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements.
Man, Paul De

29.
Each generation produces its squad of moderns with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.
Pollock, Channing

30.
Critics are already made.
Byron, Lord

31.
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

32.
The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
Benjamin, Walter

33.
Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.
Kundera, Milan

34.
In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.
Carruthers, Charles Edwin

35.
One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
W. H. Auden

36.
Every writer is necessarily a critic -- that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg -- nine-tenths of him is under water.
Wilder, Thornton

37.
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.

38.
Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense.
Coen, Ethan

39.
I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
Smith, Sydney

40.
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

41.
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
La Bruyere, Jean De

42.
He who throws dirt always loses ground.

43.
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

44.
The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being.
Little, Lynn M.

45.
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
Hammarskjold, Dag

46.
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Collins, Jackie

47.
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

48.
They condemn what they do not understand.
Cicero, Marcus T.

49.
Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.
Mayor, Federico

50.
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


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