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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
- Pope, Alexander
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Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
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

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.
Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
Conrad, Joseph

4.
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
Fuller, Margaret

5.
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

6.
The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
Simms, William Gilmore

7.
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

8.
Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it.
Rayburn, Sam

9.
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.

10.
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

11.
It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.
Mcluhan, Marshall

12.
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
Proverb, Chinese

13.
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
Buxton, Charles

14.
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

15.
Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
Miller, Henry

16.
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
Baudelaire, Charles

17.
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
Kurt Vonnegut

18.
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

19.
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

20.
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

21.
The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being.
Little, Lynn M.

22.
The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.
Gourmont, Remy De

23.
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones

24.
Nothing would improve newspaper criticism so much as the knowledge that it was to be read by men too hardy to acquiesce in the authoritative statement of the reviewer.
Hutton, R. H.

25.
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

26.
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

27.
Critics are already made.
Byron, Lord

28.
There's a fine line between participation and mockery.
Adams, Scott

29.
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

30.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie

31.
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

32.
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
Schlegel, Friedrich

33.
On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
Wilde, Oscar

34.
Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!
James, Henry

35.
When the critics come around it's always too late.
Nolan, Sir Sidney

36.
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Collins, Jackie

37.
Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.
Mcclung, Nellie

38.
He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.
Cicero, Marcus T.

39.
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
Churchill, Winston

40.
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
Updike, John

41.
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

42.
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

43.
No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.
Carlyle, Thomas

44.
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
Wilde, Oscar

45.
Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.
Aikman, Leo

46.
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
Erasmus, Desiderius

47.
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

48.
Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

49.
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Disraeli, Benjamin

50.
God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature. They won't even whore. They're all virtuous and sterile. And how well meaning and high minded. But they're all camp followers.
Hemingway, Ernest


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