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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
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Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
Smith, Sydney

2.
Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
Pope, Alexander

3.
A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
Lowell, James Russell

4.
When everyone is against you, it means you are absolutely wrong -- or you are absolutely right.
Guinon, Albert

5.
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

6.
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
H. L. Mencken

7.
Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.
Zeuxis

8.
Blame is safer than praise.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

9.
Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.
Bible

10.
Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

11.
In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.
Kael, Pauline

12.
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
Schlegel, Friedrich

13.
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
Hammarskjold, Dag

14.
He who throws dirt always loses ground.

15.
There are two modes of criticism. One which crushes to earth without mercy all the humble buds of Phantasy, all the plants that, though green and fruitful, are also a prey to insects or have suffered by drought. It weeds well the garden, and cannot believe the weed in its native soil may be a pretty, graceful plant. There is another mode which enters into the natural history of every thing that breathes and lives, which believes no impulse to be entirely in vain, which scrutinizes circumstances, motive and object before it condemns, and believes there is a beauty in natural form, if its law and purpose be understood.
Fuller, Margaret

16.
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

17.
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

18.
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
Proverb, Chinese

19.
All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
Turner, Ted

20.
One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
W. H. Auden

21.
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
Steinbeck, John

22.
It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.
Mencken, H. L.

23.
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse.
Johnson, Samuel

24.
There's a fine line between participation and mockery.
Adams, Scott

25.
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

26.
If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
Holtz, Lou

27.
If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.
Lincoln, Abraham

28.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Churchill, Winston

29.
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

30.
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Cioran, E. M.

31.
The best criticism doesn't trap an employee or child in a dead end. It gives them an escape route.

32.
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

33.
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

34.
Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- criticize.

35.
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

36.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
Hampton, Christopher

37.
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

38.
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

39.
Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it.
Rayburn, Sam

40.
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic -- a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.
Wilde, Oscar

41.
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

42.
A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
Williams, Bern

43.
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
Benjamin, Walter

44.
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

45.
A louse in the locks of literature.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred

46.
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

47.
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

48.
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

49.
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

50.
Every writer is necessarily a critic -- that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg -- nine-tenths of him is under water.
Wilder, Thornton


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