Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.

No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism.

— Clarence Darrow

“Mr Darcy is my severest critic.”

— Elizabeth Bennett

Success is the product of the severest kind of mental and physical application,

— Thomas A. Edison

Those who do the least themselves are always the severest critics upon the noble achievements of others.

— Elias Lyman Magoon

He is always the severest censor of the merit of others who has the least worth of his own.

— Anonymous

The severest justice may not always be the best policy

— Abraham Lincoln

“The severest affliction is the one which has never been tried.”

— Publius Syrus

Someone has said that even criticism is better than silence. I don't agree to this. Criticism can be very harmful unless it comes from…

— Janet Scudder

For me, movies and television are interesting because they are the dominant storytelling form of our time. My first love will always be fiction,…

— Jess Walter

The oppressed without hope are mysteriously quiet. When the conception of change is beyond the limits of the possible, there are no words to…

— Sheila Rowbotham

I reject criticism because the last thing I wanted was to sit there and look at people talking. I think people are conditioned to…

— Matt Tyrnauer

For some reason, we are truly convinced that if we criticize ourselves, the criticism will lead to change. If we are harsh, we believe…

— Geneen Roth

A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional…

— Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

I receive something we might euphemistically call an 'inappropriately hostile' response - that is to say, more than fair criticism or even fair anger…

— Mary Beard

Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,…

— Ishmael Reed