The world of scholarship is much more measured in its appreciation and also its criticism than the world of popular literature. — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
“There’s one kind of writing that’s always easy: Picking out something obviously stupid and reiterating how stupid it obviously is. This is… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Surely Islam has nothing to fear from criticism even if it be unreasonable. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Impersonal criticism?is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful. — George Jean Nathan Copy Share Image
In elaborating how "philosophy by showing" works, and in defending the idea that literature and music can contribute to philosophical "showing", I… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
“Criticize me if you can, but that won't stop me from saying what i like, my mouth is mine, and not yours.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“His conception of the universe is, however, instinctive, not intellectual; it can't be criticized as a concept, because there’s none there, and… — Álvaro de Campos Copy Share Image
“I went on writing reviews for the newspaper, and critical articles crying out for a different approach to culture, as even the… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
I'm the same as maybe six or seven people in every ten - I can't take f***ing criticism. — Martin Jol Copy Share Image
“Life was transparent, literature opaque. Life was open, literature a closed system. Life was composed of things, literature of words. Life was… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
Barack Obama happens to be the first African-American, and so criticism of him is and always was gonna be racism, and therefore… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
A young critic is like a boy with a gun; he fires at every living thing he sees. He thinks only of… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
A spirit of criticism, if indulged in, leads to a censoriousness of disposition that is destructive of all nobler feeling. The man… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I believe that one becomes stronger emotionally by taking life less personally. If your employer criticizes your report, don't take it personally.… — Marilyn vos Savant Copy Share Image
Any criticism of Thatcher throws a dangerously absurd light on the entire machinery of British politics. Thatcher's name must be protected, not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
“Ah, but sir,' said Lascelles, 'it is precisely by passing judgments upon other people's work and pointing out their errors that readers… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
You can either be yourself and accept criticism and be happy or you can be someone else and be accepted by everyone… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the process of ego, in the process of lobbying and in the process of just criticising for stake of criticism or… — Veerappa Moily Copy Share Image
The literary critic, or the critic of any other specific form of artistic expression, may detach himself from the world for as… — Clive James Copy Share Image
People tend to criticize their spouse most loudly in the area where they themselves have the deepest emotional need. — Gary Chapman Copy Share Image
My mom is an actress, but she never really pushed me into it, and it was never something I thought I would… — Morena Baccarin Copy Share Image
Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
