Criticism Quotes · Page 121

Before you judge my life, my past or my character, walk in my shoes, walk the path I have traveled, live my…

— Hemant Smarty

I believe in criticism.

— Paul Anka

I've never let the criticism deter me.

— Jamaica Kincaid

But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Great things are always criticized, because they have the power to alter the perception of the world.

— Ashutosh Cheulkar

A sneer is the weapon of the weak.

— James Russell Lowell

Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves by railing at it; and yet it is not absolutely railing against…

— Michel de Montaigne

“And when you are foolish enough to identify yourself as a poet, your interlocutors will often ask: A PUBLISHED Poet? And when…

— Ben Lerner

Because [Donald Trump] so clearly - through his words and actions and the type of people that turn up at his rallies…

— Julian Assange

Look, you are going to get criticism if things don't go well.

— Tony Pulis

What care I if it be "wild and improbable" and "lacking in literary art"? I refuse to be any longer hampered by…

— Anonymous

Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism.

— Anonymous

“The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the authors in…

— C.S. Lewis

Artists don't need criticism, artists need love

— Chuck Jones

I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book…

— Cyril Connolly

In a democratic society, we politicians have to accept criticism, especially when it is founded.

— Enrique Pena Nieto

He who first praises a book becomingly is next in merit to the author.

— Walter Savage Landor

I have a hard time with any sort of criticism; not because I have some huge ego or anything like that.

— Jim Root

Strict rules of evidence would destroy psychoanalysis and literary criticism.

— Mason Cooley

Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are…

— Anonymous

An artist's sensitivity to criticism is, at least in part, an effort to keep unimpaired the zest, or confidence, or arrogance, which…

— Christopher Fry

Writing mysteries lets me get away with murder. I think 'the mystery' may be the greatest form for social criticism, simply because…

— Gregory Mcdonald

And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.

— Alexander Pope

Don't criticize what you don't understand.

— Anonymous

You worthy critics, or whatever you may call yourselves, are ashamed or afraid of the momentary and passing madness which is found…

— Friedrich Schiller