Critic Quotes

477 quotes by 384 authors

The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age. — L. Ron Hubbard
The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Life â€¦ is a bit like reading. â€¦ If all your responses to a book have already been duplicated and expanded upon by a professional… — Julian Barnes
The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate… — Oscar Wilde
A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote. — Mignon McLaughlin
In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself. — John Steinbeck
Be a light, not a judge. Be a model, not a critic — Stephen Covey
Let's find and remedy all our weaknesses before our enemies get a chance to say a word. That is what Charles Darwin did. ...When Darwin… — Dale Carnegie
People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American. — David Sedaris
In the high school classroom you are a drill sergent, a rabbi, a shoulder to cry on, a disciplinarian, a singer, a low-level scholar, a… — Frank McCourt
Perfectionism doesn't believe in practice shots. It doesn't believe in improvement. Perfectionism has never heard that anything worth doing is worth doing badly--and that if… — Julia Cameron
No other German writer of comparable stature has been a more extreme critic of German nationalism than Nietzsche. — Walter Kaufmann
Americans have a taste forâ€¦rocking-chairs. A flippant critic might suggest that they select rocking-chairs so that, even when they are sitting down, they need not… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Be your own worst critic. When things go wrong it's tempting to shift the blame. Don't. Accept responsibility. People will appreciate it, and you will… — Paul Arden
There was Virginia Boote, the food and restaurant critic, who had once been a great beauty but was now a grand and magnificent ruin, and… — Neil Gaiman
You can be our critic. Would you dig that? (Yes, he was the last Man in America who could say â€œdigâ€ with a straight face… — Jordan Sonnenblick
I am tired of the position of the dried-up critic and doubter. The believer is the true full man. (from a biography of James by… — William James
My husband is my most ruthless critic... sometimes he will say, 'It's been said better before.' Of course it has. It's all been said better… — Madeleine L'Engle
Without my protectionm your journey is doomed before you begin.' Great! I thought. Even the snake is a critic! — E.D. Baker
The critic who doesn't make a personal statement, in remeasurements he himself has made, is merely an unreliable critic. He is not a measurer but… — Ezra Pound

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