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Criticism

He who throws dirt always loses ground.

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Best Quotes about Criticism

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

Carruthers, Charles Edwin

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

Byron, Lord

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

H. L. Mencken

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

Kundera, Milan

Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.

Clurman, Harold

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

Churchill, Charles

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

He who throws dirt always loses ground.

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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Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.

Costello, Elvis

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

Burns, Robert

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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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Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.

Hampton, Christopher

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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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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

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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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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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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

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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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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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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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Criticism should be a casual conversation.

Auden, W. H.

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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

James, Clive

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A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.

Shenstone, William

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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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You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule.

Melbourne, Lord

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The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

Raphael, Frederic

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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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There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.

Ziglar, Zig

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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

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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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A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.

Tynan, Kenneth

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Steinbeck, John

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

Dale Carnegie

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

Pollock, Channing

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The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as long as the work of art he is contemplating appears to do the same.

James, Clive

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

Nunn, Gregory

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

Mizner, Wilson

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

Hoffman, Dustin

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

Nolan, Sir Sidney

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

Helvetius, Claude A.

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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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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

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Blame is safer than praise.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo