Motivational Quotes
Criticism
When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.
Best Quotes about Criticism
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones
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
There's a fine line between participation and mockery.
Adams, Scott
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
We have been educated to such a fine -- or dull -- point that we are incapable of enjoying something new, something different, until we are first told what it's all about. We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation. In short, the blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.
Miller, Henry
Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
Buxton, Charles
A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.
Frye, Northrop
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
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
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
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Hubbard, Elbert
Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!
Flagg, Fannie
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.
If I make a move, like raise my eyebrows, some critic says I'm doing Nicholson. What am I supposed to do, cut off my eyebrows?
Slater, Christian
Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.
Burroughs, William S.
A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
Lowell, James Russell
A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
Schlegel, Friedrich
One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
Moliere
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.
Proverb, Chinese
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
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie
Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- criticize.
As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
Selye, Hans
Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.
Proverb, German
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
A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made.
Byron, Lord
Critics are already made.
Byron, Lord
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
Harold Rosenberg
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.
Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.
Fuller, Margaret
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
Burns, Robert
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
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Epictetus
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
Baudelaire, Charles
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
A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
Lowell, James Russell
For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.
Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it.
Rayburn, Sam
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
A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.
Shenstone, William
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
Steinbeck, John
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
They condemn what they do not understand.
Cicero, Marcus T.
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
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
Helvetius, Claude A.
On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
Wilde, Oscar
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
All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
Nunn, Gregory
They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own.
Porchia, Antonio
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