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108 quotes (Page 2 of 5 pages)Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
Critics and Criticism
H. L. Mencken
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Criticism should be a casual conversation.
Critics and Criticism
W. H. Auden
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Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
Critics and Criticism
Samuel Johnson
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Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
Critics and Criticism
Joseph Conrad
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Critics are already made.
Critics and Criticism
Lord Byron
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Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.
Critics and Criticism
Benjamin Disraeli
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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
Critics and Criticism
Robert Burns
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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
Critics and Criticism
Alexander Pope
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Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
Critics and Criticism
Chinese Proverb
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Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
Critics and Criticism
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Each generation produces its squad of moderns with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.
Critics and Criticism
Channing Pollock
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Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.
Critics and Criticism
German Proverb
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For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.
Critics and Criticism
Source Unknown
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Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
Critics and Criticism
John Steinbeck
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
Critics and Criticism
Fran Lebowitz
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Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.
Critics and Criticism
Claude A. Helvetius
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Having a sharp tongue will cut your throat
Critics and Criticism
Source Unknown
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He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.
Critics and Criticism
Marcus T. Cicero
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He who throws dirt always loses ground.
Critics and Criticism
Source Unknown
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Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
Critics and Criticism
Henry Miller
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I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
Critics and Criticism
Sydney Smith
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I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.
Critics and Criticism
Victor Hugo
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If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.
Critics and Criticism
Epictetus
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If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
Critics and Criticism
Lou Holtz
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If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge
Critics and Criticism
Napoleon Hill
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun