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Criticism

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

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Best Quotes about Criticism

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

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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

Carruthers, Charles Edwin

People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.

DiCaprio, Leonardo

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

Hammarskjold, Dag

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

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

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

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

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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Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.

Aikman, Leo

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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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I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.

Smith, Sydney

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Never make the mistake of assuming the critters will beat a path to your door.

Mascotte, John P.

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

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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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There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

H. L. Mencken

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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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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.

Schlegel, Friedrich

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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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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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

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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

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

Cioran, E. M.

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I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike it. I do it and I am always resolving to give it up.

Connolly, Cyril

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Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Hubbard, Elbert

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

Fuller, Margaret

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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 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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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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In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.

Congreve, William

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

Wilde, Oscar

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It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's mature critics often are.

Walker, Alice

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Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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A louse in the locks of literature.

Tennyson, Lord Alfred

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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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A sneer is the weapon of the weak.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Jean Sibelius

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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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The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.

Wilde, Oscar