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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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Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
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

2.
Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

3.
Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.
Sontag, Susan

4.
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
West, Rebecca

5.
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

6.
All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
Nunn, Gregory

7.
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
Helvetius, Claude A.

8.
Every writer is necessarily a critic -- that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg -- nine-tenths of him is under water.
Wilder, Thornton

9.
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge
Hill, Napoleon

10.
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

11.
He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.
Cicero, Marcus T.

12.
Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!
James, Henry

13.
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

14.
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

15.
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Disraeli, Benjamin

16.
The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
Simms, William Gilmore

17.
The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.
Algren, Nelson

18.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
Hampton, Christopher

19.
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
Thoreau, Henry David

20.
Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.
Kundera, Milan

21.
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

22.
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.
Dahlberg, Edward

23.
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
Fox, Dr. Emmit

24.
It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.
Mencken, H. L.

25.
Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is criticizing. Criticism can never be a science: it is, in the first place, much too personal, and in the second, it is concerned with values that science ignores. The touchstone is emotion, not reason. We judge a work of art by its effect on our sincere and vital emotion, and nothing else. All the critical twiddle-twaddle about style and form, all this pseudoscientific classifying and analyzing of books in an imitation-botanical fashion, is mere impertinence and mostly dull jargon.
Lawrence, D. H.

26.
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

27.
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

28.
People who ask for your criticism want only praise.
Maugham, W. Somerset

29.
A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
Mizner, Wilson

30.
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

31.
In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
Congreve, William

32.
No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.
Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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.
The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

35.
Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.
Mcclung, Nellie

36.
Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.
Bruyere, Jean De La

37.
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
Keats, John

38.
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

39.
We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.
Narosky, Jose

40.
A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
Williams, Bern

41.
I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
Smith, Sydney

42.
If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
Holtz, Lou

43.
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

44.
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.

45.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie

46.
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

47.
Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- criticize.

48.
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
Proverb, Chinese

49.
A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
Lowell, James Russell

50.
The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being.
Little, Lynn M.


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