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29 quotesTheir is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
Critics and Criticism
Joseph Addison
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Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.
Sympathy
Henri Frederic Amiel
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Criticism should be a casual conversation.
Critics and Criticism
W. H. Auden
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It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
Critics and Criticism
Charles Baudelaire
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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, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
Critics and Criticism
Joseph Conrad
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Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.
Candor
Benjamin Disraeli
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Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
Animals
George Eliot
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Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
Democracy
Edward M. Forster
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Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
Critics and Criticism
Dr. Emmit Fox
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It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.
Critics and Criticism
Alfred Whitney Griswold
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If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
Marriage
Katharine Hepburn
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Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.
Friends and Friendship
Edgar Watson Howe
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To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Critics and Criticism
Elbert Hubbard
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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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The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
Critics and Criticism
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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People who ask for your criticism want only praise.
Critics and Criticism
W. Somerset Maugham
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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
Critics and Criticism
H. L. Mencken
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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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We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause.
Critics and Criticism
Jose Narosky
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Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Critics and Criticism
Octavio Paz
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What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.
Arts and Artists
Octavio Paz
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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Praise
Norman Vincent Peale
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The dread of criticism is the death of genius.
Critics and Criticism
William Gilmore Simms
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Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.
Arts and Artists
Kenneth Tynan
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun