To be a mere verbal critic is what no man of genius would…

A critic is a man who writes about things he doesn't like

— Anonymous

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

— Kenneth Tynan

A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.

— Richard Le Gallienne

A good critic is the man who describes his adventures among masterpieces.

— Anatole France

“A critic is a man who expects miracles.”

— Anonymous

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

— John Mason Brown

A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.

— George Bernard Shaw

The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic -- the man who actually does the work, even…

— Theodore Roosevelt

A critic is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this;…

— Robert A. Heinlein

A "critic" is a man who creates nothing.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Criticism is now become mere hangman's work, and meddles only with the faults of authors ; nay, the critic is disgusted less with their…

— John Dryden

As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither execute nor…

— Charles Caleb Colton

I am my biggest critic. Even in films where people said they liked me, I have disliked myself.

— Samantha Akkineni

Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But…

— Whitney Balliett

I am absolutely my own biggest critic.

— Lando Norris