Usually, English personalities are difficult; they dont take criticism easily. — Natalia Makarova Copy Share Image
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
People will not be judged by the way we see them, but the way God sees them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is all very well for people with fine arts degrees, but for ordinary people like myself, we want a statue to… — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
Experiments with the "as if" of fiction are often more lively in poetry and criticism and other modes of writing than in… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it. — Howard Mumford Jones Copy Share Image
Writers like me, whose criticism is offered respectfully, seem to be considered more dangerous than the more strident Saudi opposition based in… — Jamal Khashoggi Copy Share Image
The world will not know liberty until all that is religious and political is transformed into something simple and human and made… — Alexander Herzen Copy Share Image
“There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. –Aristotle” — Improve Life Books Copy Share Image
I can deal with the media; I can deal with some of the criticism I get and still focus on what I… — Wilfried Zaha Copy Share Image
It seems this is an age of clever critics who keep bewailing the fact that there are no works worthy of criticism. — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do. Even if you go out there and try to… — Thomas Sadoski Copy Share Image
Most of the criticism of my work was pretty good, but occasionally it would not be. And I just sort of felt… — Robert Barry Copy Share Image
You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Everyone has a right to an opinion. I can arrive in England and express my opinion. If criticism were ferocious and without… — Jose Mourinho Copy Share Image
A good argument diluted to avoid criticism is not nearly as good as the undiluted argument, because we best arrive at truth… — Clarence Thomas Copy Share Image
There is no more reason to accuse ourselves excessively of our failings than to excuse them overmuch. He who goes overboard in… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
The Bible has a human history as well as a divine inspiration. It is a history full of interest, and it is… — Frederic G. Kenyon Copy Share Image
If his presidency is to represent the full power of the idea that black Americans are just like everyone else - fully… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
...smoking is just a habit. 'Tolstoy', she said, mentioning someone I hadn't met, 'says that just as much pleasure can be got… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Archaeology is a science, and like all sciences, has its limitations. For one, archaeological discoveries made in the past centuries have been… — Randall Price Copy Share Image
“People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little yet enjoy a position over those who offer… — Brad Bird Copy Share Image
Criticism on my works is like this: you've worked hard all of your life, you went to Oxford, and you've done this… — Tracey Emin Copy Share Image
Even a superstitious man has certain inalienable rights: the right to harbor and indulge his imbecilities, provided only that he does not… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“I want to say to the literature teacher who remains wilfully, even boastfully ignorant of a major element of contemporary fiction: you… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
“The best incentive for an artist are the harshest criticism” — Miguel Ángel Sáez Gutiérrez Copy Share Image
To accept good advice is but to increase one's own ability. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I always take criticism as a challenge. It's the way I've always looked at it. — Derek Jeter Copy Share Image
Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed. — Charles Babbage Copy Share Image
I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie. — Walter Hill Copy Share Image
