Blame Quote by Alexander Pope

Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?

— Alexander Pope

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

— Charles Churchill

There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible men to…

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

— Voltaire

The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of…

— Miguel de Cervantes

There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

...it is a sneaking piece of cowardice for authors to put feigned names to their works, as if, like bastards of their brain, they…

— Anonymous

We owe few of the rules of writing to the acuteness of critics, who have generally no other merit than that, having read the…

— Samuel Johnson

“Well, I wasn't going to abuse him. I was only going to ask: Is there any quality which distinguishes his work from that of…

— George Gissing

There is a natural disposition with us to judge an author's personal character by the character of his works. We find it difficult to…

— Edwin Percy Whipple