Motivational Quotes

Criticism

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

Best Quotes about Criticism

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

The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.

France, Anatole

Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled wrong.

Smullyan, Raymond

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

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

You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn't kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran into him chasing the money changers out of the temple.

Hemingway, Ernest

Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.

Dahlberg, Edward

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

Mcclung, Nellie

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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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.

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Sinha, Shall

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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

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

Kundera, Milan

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

Sontag, Susan

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Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.

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When the critics come around it's always too late.

Nolan, Sir Sidney

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

Murdoch, Iris

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

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I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."

Richard Pryor

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

Guinon, Albert

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Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

Steinbeck, John

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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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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

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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

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A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made.

Byron, Lord

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

Steinbeck, John

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Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.

Rostand, Jean

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Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.

Proverb, Chinese

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Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.

Fox, Dr. Emmit

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

Elbert Hubbard

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No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.

Bruyere, Jean De La

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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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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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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

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Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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A louse in the locks of literature.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.

Mayor, Federico

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Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

Kurt Vonnegut

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

West, Rebecca

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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

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A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.

Williams, Bern

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Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.

Burroughs, William S.

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Critics are already made.

Byron, Lord

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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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The great critic must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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David Lynch came out of it a genius, and I came out of it a fat girl. I'm sorry that the only comment I get about the part is the way I look. [Commenting on the critics' response to her performance in Blue Velvet]

Rossellini, Isabella