Best Quotes about Criticism
In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.
Carruthers, Charles Edwin
There's a fine line between participation and mockery.
Adams, Scott
The great critic must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.
Maugham, W. Somerset
Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.
Bible
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
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
Churchill, Charles
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
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
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
Baudrillard, Jean
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
A louse in the locks of literature.
Tennyson, Lord Alfred
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
Each generation produces its squad of moderns with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.
Pollock, Channing
He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.
Cicero, Marcus T.
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
Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it.
Rayburn, Sam
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
People who ask for your criticism want only praise.
Maugham, W. Somerset
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
Kundera, Milan
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
The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.
Gourmont, Remy De
It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.
Mcluhan, Marshall
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
Fox, Dr. Emmit
We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.
Narosky, Jose
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
Critics are already made.
Byron, Lord
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.
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
Christopher Hampton
Blame is safer than praise.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being.
Little, Lynn M.
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
Lawrence, D. H.
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
A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
Lowell, James Russell
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.
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
Never make the mistake of assuming the critters will beat a path to your door.
Mascotte, John P.
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
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
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
Steinbeck, John
Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.
Joubert, Joseph
If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Epictetus
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge
Hill, Napoleon
Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
Erasmus, Desiderius
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
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
Thoreau, Henry David
A critic is a man who knows the way, but can't drive the car.
Tynan, Kenneth
Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
Proverb, Chinese
All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.
Hemingway, Ernest
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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