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Criticism

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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Best Quotes about Criticism

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

Fuller, Margaret

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

Miller, Henry

There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.

Lewis, Sinclair

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Hugo, Victor

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.

Pound, Ezra

Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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

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Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Churchill, Charles

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A sneer is the weapon of the weak.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, Oh, I don't like it. One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin.

Washington, Denzel

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Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

Cioran, E. M.

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

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Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!

Meir, Golda

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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

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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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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.

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I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.

Barkley, Charles

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Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- criticize.

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He who throws dirt always loses ground.

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Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

Updike, John

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Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.

Fox, Dr. Emmit

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As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

Selye, Hans

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There's a fine line between participation and mockery.

Adams, Scott

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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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All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.

Hemingway, Ernest

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

Williams, Bern

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

Wilde, Oscar

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They condemn what they do not understand.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

La Bruyere, Jean De

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

Collins, Jackie

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If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?

Slater, Christian

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

Roosevelt, Eleanor

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

Murdoch, Iris

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Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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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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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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

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Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.

Benjamin, Walter

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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

Baudrillard, Jean

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

Steinbeck, John

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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

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Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!

Jean Sibelius