Criticism Quotes

1866 Criticism quotes by 1229 unique authors

Court not the critic's smile nor dread his frown — Sir Walter Scott
God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature. They won't even whore.… — Ernest Hemingway
We protest against unjust criticism, but we accept unearned applause. — Jose Narosky
Maybe they weren't punks at all, but New York drama critics. — Judith Crist
I would have carved on the portals of the National Press Club, Put not your trust in princes. Only the very rarest of princes can… — Walter Lippmann
One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't… — Robert Hughes
I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up… — Ernest Hemingway
No one so thoroughly appreciates the value of constructive criticism as the one who's giving it — Unknown Author
It is ridiculous for any man to criticize the works of another if he has not distinguished himself by his own performances. — Joseph Addison
To make a criticism is a bit like complaining about the shape of the Pyramids. — Unknown Author
Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism — Unknown Author
The strength of criticism lies only in the weakness of the thing criticized — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A man must serve his time to every trade: Save Censure- Critics all are ready made — Lord Byron
Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest — Samuel Johnson
The duty of criticism is neither to depreciate nor dignify by partial representations, but to hold out the light of reason, whatever it may discover;… — Samuel Johnson
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson
A critic is a man who writes about things he doesn't like — Henry Louis Mencken
Now, in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then… — Henry Fielding
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expenses — Samuel Johnson
We owe few of the rules of writing to the acuteness of critics, who have generally no other merit than that, having read the works… — Samuel Johnson
The most vigilant self-criticism of course is necessary, but the time comes when the artist must tell himself he is good or he will go… — Unknown Author
Let dull critics feed upon the carcasses of plays; give me the taste and the dressing — Lord Chesterfield
Politics calls for robust debate and criticism, but this should never descend to personal and demeaning slurs. — Unknown Author
But I think the bottom line right now is to take the constructive criticism and use that to build toward, as I say, the hurricane… — Michael Chertoff
The rising power of the United States in world affairs requires, not a more compliant press, but a relentless barrage of facts and criticism. Our… — James Reston

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