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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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Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
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

2.
I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic, and who will seek beneath the footsteps of my commas the lice of my thought in the head of my style.
Aragon, Louis

3.
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
La Bruyere, Jean De

4.
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
Lawrence, D. H.

5.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
Roosevelt, Eleanor

6.
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world -- though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst -- the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!
Sterne, Laurence

7.
Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.
Mayor, Federico

8.
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

9.
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

10.
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
Helvetius, Claude A.

11.
No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.
Carlyle, Thomas

12.
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
Picasso, Pablo

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.
What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
Cocteau, Jean

15.
Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.
Disraeli, Benjamin

16.
Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.
Carnegie, Dale

17.
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

18.
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Epictetus

19.
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
Harold Rosenberg

20.
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

21.
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

22.
Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.
Bible

23.
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

24.
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.

25.
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

26.
I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
Hugo, Victor

27.
As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
Selye, Hans

28.
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge
Hill, Napoleon

29.
Never make the mistake of assuming the critters will beat a path to your door.
Mascotte, John P.

30.
We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.
Narosky, Jose

31.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
Hampton, Christopher

32.
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

33.
The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being.
Little, Lynn M.

34.
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
Burns, Robert

35.
Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.
Simms, William Gilmore

36.
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.

37.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Richard Pryor

38.
One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
Moliere

39.
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

40.
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

41.
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
Clurman, Harold

42.
Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
Pope, Alexander

43.
After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
Edith Wharton

44.
Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.
Native American Proverb

45.
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

46.
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

47.
He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.
Cicero, Marcus T.

48.
Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
Conrad, Joseph

49.
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
Hammarskjold, Dag

50.
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.
Johnson, Samuel


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