Critics Quotes

1359 Critics quotes by 983 unique authors

I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one. — Victor Hugo
All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and… — Ernest Hemingway
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better. — Oliver Goldsmith
If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses.… — Abraham Lincoln
One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then… — Paul Klee
On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure. — Oscar Wilde
A louse in the locks of literature. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon,… — Edward Dahlberg
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst - the cant of… — Laurence Sterne
The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought… — Oscar Wilde
That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply… — Oscar Wilde
I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because… — Cyril Connolly
Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral… — Edward Dahlberg
It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as… — Edward Dahlberg
Critics are those who have failed in literature and art. — Benjamin Disraeli
Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all… — Tryon Edwards
Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Criticism should be a casual conversation. — Wystan Hugh Auden
To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an… — Charles Baudelaire
Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion… — John Berger
Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native… — Jean de la Bruyere
Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that… — William S. Burroughs
Critics are already made. — Lord Byron
It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their… — Raymond Chandler
Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded… — Immanuel Kant

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