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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
Criticism Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
Hammarskjold, Dag

2.
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
Raphael, Frederic

3.
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

4.
Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.
Orwell, George

5.
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
Burns, Robert

6.
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

7.
I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
Smith, Sydney

8.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Ziglar, Zig

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

10.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Richard Pryor

11.
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

12.
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
Benjamin, Walter

13.
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
Fuller, Margaret

14.
The great critic must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.
Maugham, W. Somerset

15.
I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
Hugo, Victor

16.
Critics are already made.
Byron, Lord

17.
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

18.
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

19.
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

20.
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

21.
Criticism should be a casual conversation.
Auden, W. H.

22.
As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
James, Clive

23.
Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
Buxton, Charles

24.
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

25.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
Franklin, Benjamin

26.
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

27.
Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.
Native American Proverb

28.
A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
Hoffman, Dustin

29.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie

30.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
Hampton, Christopher

31.
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

32.
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

33.
He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.
Cicero, Marcus T.

34.
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

35.
A critic is a man who knows the way, but can't drive the car.
Tynan, Kenneth

36.
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.

37.
If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Lincoln, Abraham

38.
When everyone is against you, it means you are absolutely wrong -- or you are absolutely right.
Guinon, Albert

39.
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
Schlegel, Friedrich

40.
Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- criticize.

41.
The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.
Gourmont, Remy De

42.
No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.
Carlyle, Thomas

43.
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

44.
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

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

46.
Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell

47.
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
Erasmus, Desiderius

48.
On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
Wilde, Oscar

49.
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

50.
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


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