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108 quotes (Page 1 of 5 pages)A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
Critics and Criticism
Iris Murdoch
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A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Critics and Criticism
Channing Pollock
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A critic is a man who knows the way, but can't drive the car.
Critics and Criticism
Kenneth Tynan
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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
Critics and Criticism
Friedrich Schlegel
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A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
Critics and Criticism
Wilson Mizner
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A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.
Critics and Criticism
Bern Williams
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A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
Critics and Criticism
Dustin Hoffman
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A louse in the locks of literature.
Critics and Criticism
Lord Alfred Tennyson
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A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.
Critics and Criticism
William Shenstone
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A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made.
Critics and Criticism
Lord Byron
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A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
Critics and Criticism
Jean Baudrillard
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A sneer is the weapon of the weak.
Critics and Criticism
James Russell Lowell
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A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
Critics and Criticism
James Russell Lowell
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All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.
Critics and Criticism
Ted Turner
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All of us could take a lesson from the weather, it pays no attention to criticism.
Critics and Criticism
Source Unknown
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All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
Critics and Criticism
Gregory Nunn
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Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
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Rebecca West
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Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it.
Critics and Criticism
Sam Rayburn
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As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.
Critics and Criticism
Clive James
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As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
Critics and Criticism
Hans Selye
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Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.
Critics and Criticism
Bible
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Blame is safer than praise.
Critics and Criticism
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.
Critics and Criticism
Federico Mayor
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Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Critics and Criticism
E. M. Cioran
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Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
Critics and Criticism
Dr. Emmit Fox
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun