The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author. — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Those who do the least themselves are always the severest critics upon the noble achievements of others. — Elias Lyman Magoon Copy Share Image
Reversing the escalation of health care costs is going to need more than legislation, yet it can be done without imposing rationing,… — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image
Four predictions of the Big Bang Theory have now been verified - surely enough to quench even the most biased critics. — Joseph Silk Copy Share Image
No government should be without critics. If its intentions are good then it has nothing to fear from criticism. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I hear all the critics, man. I hear them saying 'He's done.' I hear them saying 'He can't.' I hear all that.… — Frank Gore Copy Share Image
“You should praise, criticize and flirt with people right to their face, only then it will make a difference.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Diebenkorn was a very good critic, a very tough critic, tough on himself, tough on others. He expected the finest. — Wayne Thiebaud Copy Share Image
A critic is never too severe when he only detects the faults of an author. But he is worse than too severe… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The artist usually sets out -- or used to -- to point a moral and adorn a tale. The tale, however, points… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A theme that appears repeatedly in the writings of the social critics of the second half of the 20th century is the… — Theodore Kaczynski Copy Share Image
When you're developing a story, for me anyway, it's all so important to get the script right, especially when you're telling the… — Graham King Copy Share Image
While it is emotion that gives an impulse to the landscape painter, it is his style that inspires the critic's praise, and… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
People think I'm against critics because they are negative to my work. That's not what bothers me. What bothers me is they… — Jerry Lewis Copy Share Image
Insofar as we, critics of the black tradition, master our craft, we serve both to preserve our own traditions and to shape… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
At first critics classified authors as Ancients, that is to say, Greek and Latin authors, and Moderns, that is to say, every… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Liberals cling to the idea that critics of welfare are motivated by greed or callous disregard for the less fortunate. In fact,… — Mona Charen Copy Share Image
In the eight years I worked at newspapers, even during a little stretch when I was a film critic, I was never,… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Critics of the war plans (including myself) have pointed to the disastrous political results that must be expected: Iraq would break into… — Uri Avnery Copy Share Image
But I remember the morning after The Mask of Virtue-which is the first play I did at the West End-that some critics… — Vivien Leigh Copy Share Image
When I did the album Electric Circus, not only was it not commercially received. But even the critics and hip-hop community was… — Common Copy Share Image
It's probably hard for anyone looking at my landscapes today to realize that I was once regarded as a rebel, a dangerous… — A. Y. Jackson Copy Share Image
There are many critics whose work I greatly admire. Even though I diverge from T.J. Reed in several important ways, I've learned… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
'Seven Turns' was a tough album because we knew that the critics would use it to determine whether or not we should… — Dickey Betts Copy Share Image
You know, there are so many snarky angry critics out there who are just sort of looking to tear down whoever is… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
“There is something essentially ridiculous about critics, anyway: what is good is good without our saying so, and beneath all our majesty… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Who knows what critics are thinking? I know that you make more of a name for yourself, make more of an interesting… — Paul Rudd Copy Share Image
Great is paint; nay, God is the painter; and we rightly accuse the critic who destroys too many illusions. Society does not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The critics can say stupid things and we can enjoy them, if we have the legitimate feeling of superiority - the satisfaction… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
Don't be taken in by the guff that critics are killing the theater. Commonly they sin on the side of enthusiasm. Too… — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. it does involve the belief that god loves man… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche. — Walter Kaufmann Copy Share Image
I don't trust white critics' judgment about most things that deal with black life, particularly when a black person is the creator. — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
A good critic is the sorcerer who makes some hidden spring gush forth unexpectedly under our feet. — Francois Mauriac Copy Share Image
Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic. — Jean Sibelius Copy Share Image
My last series was on A.B.C., a one-hour called 'My Generation'. Critics liked it. I was on for two weeks, and that… — Warren Littlefield Copy Share Image
Critics have to sit through an awful lot of rubbish, and you feel really sorry for them. In fact, I've been in… — Diana Rigg Copy Share Image
The critic is a prisoner to his own experiences and perspectives, erroneously believing his limited experiences are the sum of all truth — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
