Critic Quotes

477 quotes by 384 authors

The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic. — A. E. Housman
I'm in my 10th generation of TV critic now. — Geraldo Rivera
The most useless job in the world is that of the critic. That is a prejudiced statement. I admit it. I'm prejudiced. I hate critics.… — David Gerrold
The great critic â€¦ must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things. — W. Somerset Maugham
Now, get this as a technical fact, not a hopeful idea. Every time we have investigated the background of a critic of Scientology, we have… — L. Ron Hubbard
Never discuss Scientology with the critic. Just discuss his or her crimes, known and unknown. — L. Ron Hubbard
The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour. — Frederic Raphael
Critics stopped being relevant when they stopped writing to inform and contextualize, and when they started writing to signal who they are, to display their… — Tucker Max
For me, it's easier to like more things than to dislike them; I'm not a critic in that sense. I find it easier to like… — David LaChapelle
A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded. — Murray Kempton
One forgives the critic - perhaps - but never the good-natured friend. — James Payn
A man goes to the movies. The critic must be honest enough to admit that he is that man. — Robert Warshow
I don't think of myself as a critic or teacher either, but simply - and at the obvious risk of disingenuousness - as someone who… — Richard Gilman
It has been rightly said that what a critic wants to understand he must, at one time, have deeply loved, even if only for a… — Martin Esslin
In 1972 I married again, to Elisabeth Case; she continues to be wife, companion, critic and editor: a partner in the projects and programs that… — Douglass North
The popular distinction between 'constructive' and 'destructive' criticism is a sentimentality: the mind too weak to perceive in what respects the bad fails is not… — Brigid Brophy
Your function as a critic is to show that it is really you yourself who should have written the book, if you had had the… — Stephen Potter
Critics are entitled to have an opinion, but how can they judge how comfortable a building is? No critic is smart enough to judge how… — Helmut Jahn
A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them. — Richard Le Gallienne
Most of the methods of training the conscious side of the writer-the craftsman and the critic in him- are actually hostile to the good of… — Dorothea Brande

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