Motivational Quotes

Criticism

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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Best Quotes about Criticism

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Carruthers, Charles Edwin

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

People who ask for your criticism want only praise.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Buxton, Charles

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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Having a sharp tongue will cut your throat

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One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving that modern art is meaningless. They have put into practice the notion that a bad art work cleverly interpreted according to some obscure Method is more rewarding than a masterpiece wrapped in silence.

Rosenberg, Harold

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

Cicero, Marcus 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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A louse in the locks of literature.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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

Bible

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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 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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It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Woolf, Virginia

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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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Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.

Wolfe, Thomas

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Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

Miller, Henry

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Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.

Adorno, Theodor W.

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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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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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It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence that they should write entertainingly about something which is rarely worth writing about at all.

Chandler, Raymond

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.

Wilde, Oscar

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We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.

Narosky, Jose

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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

Wilde, Oscar

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Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.

Zeuxis

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Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it.

Rayburn, Sam

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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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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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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

Collins, Jackie

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Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!

Flagg, Fannie

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

Hugo, Victor

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

Porchia, Antonio

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The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being.

Little, Lynn M.

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Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.

Proverb, Chinese

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For if there is anything to one's praise, it is foolish vanity to be gratified at it, and if it is abuse -- why one is always sure to hear of it from one damned good-natured friend or another!

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

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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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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

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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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No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.