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Criticism

He who throws dirt always loses ground.

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Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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.

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

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

James, Henry

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

Dale Carnegie

People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.

DiCaprio, Leonardo

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

Cocteau, Jean

Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.

Native American Proverb

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

Porchia, Antonio

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No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.

Olivier, Sir Lawrence

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

Holtz, Lou

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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

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

Franklin P. Jones

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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

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Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

Erasmus, Desiderius

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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.

Rowland, Helen

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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.

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

Kundera, Milan

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The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.

Gourmont, Remy De

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Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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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.

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For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.

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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.

Picasso, Pablo

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Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

Sontag, Susan

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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

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Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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

Updike, John

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It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.

Mcluhan, Marshall

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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

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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

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

Conrad, Joseph

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

Aikman, Leo

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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.

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

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The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid.

Auden, W. H.

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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.

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Satire is often the reflection of a kind of moral nausea.

Briton, Crand

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Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.

Rostand, Jean

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Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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

Clurman, Harold

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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.

Proverb, Chinese

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

Kundera, Milan

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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

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A sneer is the weapon of the weak.

Lowell, James Russell

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Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.

Williams, Bern

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Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.

Chandler, Raymond