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Criticism

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
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Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it.
Rayburn, Sam

2.
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

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

4.
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

5.
Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.
Zeuxis

6.
The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being.
Little, Lynn M.

7.
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

8.
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred

9.
Never make the mistake of assuming the critters will beat a path to your door.
Mascotte, John P.

10.
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
France, Anatole

11.
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
Steinbeck, John

12.
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.

13.
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

14.
Having a sharp tongue will cut your throat

15.
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

16.
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

17.
Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.
Fiedler, Leslie

18.
Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- criticize.

19.
I know I'm never as good or bad as one single performance. I've never believed in my critics or my worshippers, and I've always been able to leave the game at the arena.
Barkley, Charles

20.
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.

21.
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

22.
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
Kundera, Milan

23.
In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.
Sontag, Susan

24.
Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.
On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
Wilde, Oscar

26.
The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.
Gourmont, Remy De

27.
If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
Holtz, Lou

28.
Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.
Bible

29.
Honest criticism is hard to take, especially from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Jones, Franklin P.

30.
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

31.
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

32.
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Collins, Jackie

33.
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

34.
A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made.
Byron, Lord

35.
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
Fox, Dr. Emmit

36.
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

37.
There is an air of last things, a brooding sense of impending annihilation, about so much deconstructive activity, in so many of its guises; it is not merely postmodernist but preapocalyptic.
Lehman, David

38.
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

39.
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

40.
Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.
Aikman, Leo

41.
Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
Buxton, Charles

42.
Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled wrong.
Smullyan, Raymond

43.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
Roosevelt, Eleanor

44.
Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.
Proverb, German

45.
In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.
Carruthers, Charles Edwin

46.
A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
Mizner, Wilson

47.
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Disraeli, Benjamin

48.
The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
Simms, William Gilmore

49.
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

50.
You should never assume contempt for that which it is not very manifest that you have it in your power to possess, nor does a wit ever make a more contemptible figure than when, in attempting satire, he shows that he does not understand that which he would make the subject of his ridicule.
Melbourne, Lord


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