Motivational Quotes
Criticism
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Best Quotes about Criticism
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
Addison, Joseph
Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.
Kundera, Milan
Satire is often the reflection of a kind of moral nausea.
Briton, Crand
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
Murdoch, Iris
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
H. L. Mencken
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie
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.
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Wilde, Oscar
A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
Mizner, Wilson
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.
Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
Conrad, Joseph
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Epictetus
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
Churchill, Charles
I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
Hugo, Victor
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
La Bruyere, Jean De
When the critics come around it's always too late.
Nolan, Sir Sidney
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
Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.
Rostand, Jean
The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
Simms, William Gilmore
For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.
In reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.
Fielding, Henry
Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.
Aikman, Leo
In an age of unscrupulous and shameless book-making, it is a duty to give notice of the rubbish that cumbers the ground. There is no credit, no real power required for this task. It is the work of an intellectual scavenger, and far from being specially honorable.
Hutton, R. H.
The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being.
Little, Lynn M.
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Cioran, E. M.
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
Proverb, Chinese
The great critic must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.
Maugham, W. Somerset
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
The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification.
Paglia, Camille
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Paz, Octavio
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
Porchia, Antonio
Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Jones, Franklin P.
Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.
Dahlberg, Edward
The critical method which denies literary modernity would appear -- and even, in certain respects, would be -- the most modern of critical movements.
Man, Paul De
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
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
What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
Cocteau, Jean
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.
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
Hammarskjold, Dag
All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
Turner, Ted
In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.
Carruthers, Charles Edwin
Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.
Mayor, Federico
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones
One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
W. H. Auden
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
Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.
Joubert, Joseph
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
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.
You're never s good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.
Holtz, Lou
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