The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows…

“The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with…

— Raymond Chandler

“A good critic knows that he or she can be wrong, as does a good writer.”

— Andy Merton

A critic knows more than the author he criticizes, or just as much, or at least somewhat less.

— Henry Edward Manning

When a critic knows what she or he is looking at and writes revealingly about it, it's sublime.

— Charles Saatchi

Being anthropologically respectful of all faiths means being committed to none, and being left to drift without an anchor for one's most deeply held…

— Simon Critchley

“If thou be powerful, make thyself to be honoured for knowledge and for gentleness. Speak with authority, that is, not as if following injunctions,…

— Ptahhotep

I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which…

— Gail Simmons

Those are always fun characters to play, the ones who are stupid but speak with authority.

— Alan Tudyk

Certainly, when you have shoulder pads on that go up to your ears, you hold yourself a certain way. You speak with authority when…

— Wendi McLendon-Covey

I don't know where it's come from, but after many years of many different products, I feel like I can speak as an authority…

— June Diane Raphael

“You have to experience it, in order to speak about it with authority. Joseph Wambaugh says it with an air of that same authenticity,…

— Joseph Wambaugh

I can't speak with authority about Emeka Anyaoku. I just didn't know him that well.

— Bob Hawke

“When we speak of authority at present we usually have in mind governmental authority. Actually, social order is most firm when imposed and maintained…

— Eric Hoffer

I believed in God when cancer come to me. Now when I speak, I speak with authority because I've been there.

— Mr. T

I don't feel I can speak with authority for many other people.

— V. S. Naipaul