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I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
- Smith, Sydney
Criticism Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Criticism

1.
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Paz, Octavio

2.
Blame is safer than praise.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

3.
Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
Hammarskjold, Dag

4.
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
Clurman, Harold

5.
If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not good, then even the praise of ten angels would not make the difference.
Lincoln, Abraham

6.
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli

7.
Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.
Dahlberg, Edward

8.
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

9.
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

10.
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge
Hill, Napoleon

11.
As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
Selye, Hans

12.
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

13.
Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.
Galbraith, John Kenneth

14.
That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.
Wilde, Oscar

15.
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

16.
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
Steinbeck, John

17.
There's a fine line between participation and mockery.
Adams, Scott

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.
The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
Benjamin, Walter

20.
It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.
Mcluhan, Marshall

21.
Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

22.
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
La Bruyere, Jean De

23.
All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
Nunn, Gregory

24.
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

25.
Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.
Mcclung, Nellie

26.
Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.
Kundera, Milan

27.
When subjected to the rain of criticism, let?s not curse the rain. Let?s accept it as a part of life. Let?s remember that the more criticism we can successfully handle, the more zest we will experience in our lives.
Sinha, Shall

28.
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic -- a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.
Wilde, Oscar

29.
Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense.
Coen, Ethan

30.
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
Kundera, Milan

31.
There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

32.
Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.
Disraeli, Benjamin

33.
The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
Simms, William Gilmore

34.
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Collins, Jackie

35.
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

36.
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
Helvetius, Claude A.

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.
One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.
Klee, Paul

39.
Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.
Mayor, Federico

40.
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
Beecher, Henry Ward

41.
The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being.
Little, Lynn M.

42.
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

43.
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

44.
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

45.
On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
Wilde, Oscar

46.
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

47.
Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!
James, Henry

48.
Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- criticize.

49.
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

50.
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Epictetus


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