Critics and Criticism Quotes

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

Authors on Critics and Criticism

Scott Adams Joseph Addison Leo Aikman American Indian Proverb W. H. Auden Charles Baudelaire Jean Baudrillard Bible Ambrose Bierce 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