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Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.
Proverb, German

2.
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

3.
Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!
James, Henry

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.
Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture.
Adorno, Theodor W.

6.
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

7.
Satire is often the reflection of a kind of moral nausea.
Briton, Crand

8.
I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
Hugo, Victor

9.
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Cioran, E. M.

10.
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
Proverb, Chinese

11.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
Christopher Hampton

12.
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.

13.
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
Porchia, Antonio

14.
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

15.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard

16.
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Hubbard, Elbert

17.
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
Benjamin, Walter

18.
Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

19.
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

20.
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
Proverb, Chinese

21.
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

22.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Richard Pryor

23.
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

24.
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art. Even more. It is the revenge of the intellect upon the world. To interpret is to impoverish, to deplete the world -- in order to set up a shadow world of meanings.
Sontag, Susan

25.
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

26.
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.

27.
The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.
Buxton, Charles

28.
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

29.
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
Fox, Dr. Emmit

30.
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

31.
Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

32.
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge
Hill, Napoleon

33.
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

34.
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

35.
They condemn what they do not understand.
Cicero, Marcus T.

36.
You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.
Maugham, W. Somerset

37.
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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.
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

40.
When everyone is against you, it means you are absolutely wrong -- or you are absolutely right.
Guinon, Albert

41.
The best criticism doesn't trap an employee or child in a dead end. It gives them an escape route.

42.
Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!
Flagg, Fannie

43.
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Disraeli, Benjamin

44.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli

45.
It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.
Wilson, Woodrow T.

46.
If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
Holtz, Lou

47.
A critic is a man who knows the way, but can't drive the car.
Tynan, Kenneth

48.
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

49.
I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
Smith, Sydney

50.
Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von


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