Motivational Quotes

Criticism

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

- Bible

Best Quotes about Criticism

Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.

Fox, Dr. Emmit

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

Mascotte, John P.

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

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

Harold Rosenberg

Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.

Zeuxis

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.

Henry Fielding

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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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

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Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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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

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

Erasmus, Desiderius

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Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.

Mayor, Federico

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Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

West, Rebecca

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

Carruthers, Charles Edwin

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One cannot review a bad book without showing off.

W. H. Auden

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Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.

Buxton, Charles

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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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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.

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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

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Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.

Wolfe, Thomas

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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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Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.

Rostand, Jean

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

Hugo, Victor

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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

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

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Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.

Paz, Octavio

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Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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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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Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

Addison, Joseph

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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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Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.

Proverb, German

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

Tynan, Kenneth

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The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being.

Little, Lynn M.

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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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Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!

Flagg, Fannie

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Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.

Dale Carnegie

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Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.

Native American Proverb

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A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.

Hoffman, Dustin

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Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world -- in order to set up a shadow world of meanings.

Sontag, Susan

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Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.

Edwards, Tryon

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

Emerson, Ralph Waldo