Criticism Quotes

1866 Criticism quotes by 1229 unique authors

Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural… — Paddy Ashdown
There is nothing sacred or untouchable except the freedom to think. Without criticism, that is to say, without rigor and experimentation, there is no science,… — Octavio Paz
Perhaps the greatest rudenesses of our time come not from the callousness of strangers, but from the solicitousness of intimates who believe that their frank… — Judith Martin
The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must feel… — H. L. Mencken
The complaint about modern steel furniture, modern glass houses, modern red bars and modern streamlined trains and cars is that all these objets modernize, while… — Elwyn Brooks White
Candor is the brightest gem of criticism. — Benjamin Disraeli
Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical. — Benjamin Disraeli
There is no fate more distressing for an artist than to have to show himself off before fools, to see his work exposed to the… — Moliere
I hope that no one present will suspect me of offering my personal criticism of the Western system to present socialism as an alternative. Having… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is… — Honore de Balzac
It is essential for the good of criticism that both the critic and the public face the fact that a review is not the voice… — Judith Crist
For most of us even the imagined threat of criticism functions to control our behavior. We are haunted to some degree by questions about our… — Robert D. Hare
We protest against unjust criticism but we accept unarmed applause. — Jose Narosky
There has been a lot of talk lately about the burdens of the Presidency. Decisions that the President has to make often affect the lives… — Harry S. Truman
Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity. — Michel de Montaigne
We every day and every hour say things of another that we might more properly say of ourselves, could we but apply our observations to… — Michel de Montaigne
You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism. — Mark Twain
Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing. — Oscar Wilde
No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.… — Oscar Wilde
Imitation is criticism. — William Blake
We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another… — Thomas Carlyle
The slanders of the pen pierce to the heart; they rankle longest in the noblest spirits; they dwell ever present in the mind and render… — Washington Irving

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