Critics and Criticism Quotes

108 quotations about Critics and Criticism

Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.

Benjamin Disraeli · Critics and Criticism

Blame is safer than praise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Critics and Criticism

Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Critics and Criticism

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

Epictetus · Critics and Criticism

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

Desiderius Erasmus · Critics and Criticism

Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!

Fannie Flagg · Critics and Criticism

Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.

Dr. Emmit Fox · Critics and Criticism

The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.

Anatole France · Critics and Criticism

Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe · Critics and Criticism

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

Oliver Goldsmith · Critics and Criticism

The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.

Remy De Gourmont · Critics and Criticism

It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.

Alfred Whitney Griswold · Critics and Criticism

Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

Dag Hammarskjold · Critics and Criticism

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.

Claude A. Helvetius · Critics and Criticism

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge

Napoleon Hill · Critics and Criticism

A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.

Dustin Hoffman · Critics and Criticism

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.

Lou Holtz · Critics and Criticism

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Elbert Hubbard · Critics and Criticism

I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.

Victor Hugo · Critics and Criticism

As a work of art it has the same status as a long conversation between two not very bright drunks.

Clive James · Critics and Criticism

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.

Samuel Johnson · Critics and Criticism

In the arts, the critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

Pauline Kael · Critics and Criticism

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

Milan Kundera · Critics and Criticism

The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.

Jean De La Bruyere · Critics and Criticism

The easiest thing a human being can do is to criticize another human being.

Lynn M. Little · Critics and Criticism

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