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Criticism Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- The ambition of superior sensibility and superior eloquence disposes the lovers of arts to receive rapture at one time, and communicate it at another; and…
- Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability…
- There prevails among men of letters, an opinion, that all appearance of science is particularly hateful to Women; and that therefore whoever desires to be…
- Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
- Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant,…
- The purpose of a writer is to be read, and the criticism which would destroy the power of pleasing must be blown aside
- You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot…
- An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace.
- A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
- He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
- I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.
- Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest
- 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;…
- If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise
- Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expenses
- 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…
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- Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise. — Mary Kay Ash
- Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak. — William Shakespeare
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- In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are… — George Orwell
- We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization… — Julian Assange
- The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely… — Rowan Atkinson
- Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when… — Kevin Bacon
- I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to… — James A. Baldwin