Critic Quotes

477 quotes by 384 authors

This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to… — Mark Twain
The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or… — Harold Bloom
In Holman Hunt's painting, "The Light of the World, "Christ is shown in a garden at midnight, holding a lantern in His left hand. With… — James Keller
I have never been a critic of science fiction as a whole. — Robert Sheckley
CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work. — Ambrose Bierce
It's funny to be a critic. — Leslie Fiedler
At best, the relationship between drama critic and playwright is a pretty twiggy affair. When I'm asked whom I write for, after the obligatory, I… — Lanford Wilson
Most of us live for the critic, and he lives on us. He doesn't sacrifice himself. He gets so much a line for writing a… — William Morris Hunt
We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he remains in orbit… — Kingsley Amis
The dilemma of the critic has always been that if he knows enough to speak with authority, he knows too much to speak with detachment. — Raymond Chandler
I completely love music. I used to be the music critic at 'The Improper Bostonian.' It's just something I've always loved very deeply. — Matthew Tobin Anderson
A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned. — George Bernard Shaw
I'm a very vicious critic of myself. — Dave Matthews
I'm not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now. — Gordon Ramsay
I relate to the feeling that Da Vinci was often plagued by the idea that what he did wasn't good enough, that he was his… — David S. Goyer
To be a textual critic requires aptitude for thinking and willingness to think; and though it also requires other things, those things are supplements and… — A. E. Housman
I would never really analyse what I do. I leave that to other people - I'm not a critic. I just want to get on… — Dylan Moran
Rush Limbaugh is a principled conservative, master broadcaster and stinging social critic who has won his mammoth following through his own energy, individualism and wit.… — Camille Paglia
Keep in mind that Eric Alterman is media critic for The Nation-a hysterically left-wing magazine dedicated to the proposition that corporate America, U.S. foreign policy… — Jonah Goldberg
Modern liberalism has many roots. One of the most important is the ideas of a man described by an American critic as 'his satanic free-trade… — Alan Ryan

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