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You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
- Maugham, W. Somerset
Criticism Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge
Hill, Napoleon

2.
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

3.
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

4.
He who throws dirt always loses ground.

5.
Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.
Mcclung, Nellie

6.
Having a sharp tongue will cut your throat

7.
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

8.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
Christopher Hampton

9.
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.

10.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.

11.
One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
W. H. Auden

12.
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

13.
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

14.
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

15.
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.

16.
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Paz, Octavio

17.
People who ask for your criticism want only praise.
Maugham, W. Somerset

18.
Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
Conrad, Joseph

19.
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Epictetus

20.
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

21.
Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!
Jean Sibelius

22.
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
France, Anatole

23.
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

24.
A critic is a man who knows the way, but can't drive the car.
Tynan, Kenneth

25.
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

26.
Give me the critic bred in Nature's school, who neither talks by rote, nor thinks by rule; who feeling's honest dictates still obeys, and dares, without a precedent, to praise.
Shee, Sir Martin Archer

27.
Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.

28.
Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

29.
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
Erasmus, Desiderius

30.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Richard Pryor

31.
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

32.
Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
Miller, Henry

33.
Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

34.
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

35.
A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.
Frye, Northrop

36.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
Roosevelt, Eleanor

37.
Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense.
Coen, Ethan

38.
If what they are saying about you is true, mend your ways. If it isn't true, forget it, and go on and serve the Lord.
Ironside, H. A.

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

40.
A louse in the locks of literature.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred

41.
There is an air of last things, a brooding sense of impending annihilation, about so much deconstructive activity, in so many of its guises; it is not merely postmodernist but preapocalyptic.
Lehman, David

42.
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
Baudrillard, Jean

43.
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.

44.
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

45.
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

46.
Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- criticize.

47.
Critics are already made.
Byron, Lord

48.
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
Hammarskjold, Dag

49.
If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
Holtz, Lou

50.
Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


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