Criticism Quotes · Page 145

I don't want to grow a thick skin. Some people say, "Oh, you're an actress, you have to get used to criticism."…

— Jenny Slate

Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is…

— Theodor Adorno

Dissonance cannot be corrected by criticism.

— Wilford W. Andersen

He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

There are naive questions, tedious questions, ill-phrased questions, questions put after inadequate self-criticism. But every question is a cry to understand the…

— Carl Sagan

I don't mind critics. I mean, I wrote for Rolling Stone for a hot minute. I like criticism. I enjoy criticism. The…

— Patrick Stump

It is a fallacy to think that carping is the strongest form of criticism: the important work begins after the artist's mistakes…

— Wilfrid Sheed

Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire.

— Ezra Pound

Seditious libel is the doctrine that flourished in England during and after the Star Chamber. It is the hallmark of closed societies…

— Harry Kalven

One of the things that I truly have had to learn, sometimes the hard way, but that I'd like to share with…

— Christina Aguilera

I'll always miss Mad Men, of course, but it is interesting to finally answer different questions after nine years. Not that that's…

— Christina Hendricks

A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so…

— Helen Rowland

Never judge another person by what their enemies say about them.

— Anonymous

As every writer has his use, every writer ought to have his patrons; and since no man, however high he may now…

— Samuel Johnson

Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.

— Benjamin Disraeli

I don't try to think about how I can satisfy those who would criticize me, or plot and plan to work in…

— Maxine Waters

I don't think of myself as a critic or teacher either, but simply - and at the obvious risk of disingenuousness -…

— Richard Gilman

We always complain about others but MOSTLY people's behavior towards us is a mirror image of our own actions.

— Ash Sweeney

The reaction we should be having to [rich liberals] is not ridicule, but rather self-criticism. Why aren't we organizing them? I mean,…

— Noam Chomsky

Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.

— Ezra Pound

My criticism hasn't necessarily been informed by the critics I've read. The conversations I've had with friends and fellow musicians have shaped…

— Sasha Frere-Jones

I'm neither shy nor impressed by media and press. It's just another industry to me. My response to the criticism was, "I…

— Aleksandra Mir

“At first Christ was a man – nothing more. Mary was his mother, Joseph his father. The genealogy of his father, Joseph,…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

If you live for the compliments, you'll die by the criticism.

— Charlamagne tha God