Critics and Criticism Quotes
108 quotations about Critics and Criticism
There's a fine line between participation and mockery.
Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.
Most of us are umpires at heart; we like to call balls and strikes on somebody else.
Criticism should be a casual conversation.
It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath.
The covers of this book are too far apart.
Satire is often the reflection of a kind of moral nausea.
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.
A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made.
Critics are already made.
No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.
In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay.
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.
They condemn what they do not understand.
He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Unlike other people, our reviewers are powerful because they believe in nothing.
What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Authors on Critics and Criticism
Scott Adams
Joseph Addison
Leo Aikman
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Charles Baudelaire
Jean Baudrillard
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Crand Briton
Robert Burns
Charles Buxton
Lord Byron
Thomas Carlyle
Charles Edwin Carruthers
Chinese Proverb
Charles Churchill
Marcus T. Cicero
E. M. Cioran
Harold Clurman