Critics Quotes

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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
Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only… — Joseph Joubert
Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well. — Samuel Johnson
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,… — Samuel Johnson
The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic! — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every writer is necessarily a critic - that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each selection is governed… — Thornton Wilder
He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
They condemn what they do not understand. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all! — Henry James
The art critics on some of Britain's newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully employed for life. — Charles Saatchi
If criticism had any power to harm, the skunk would be extinct by now. — Fred Allen
Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with, the wind. — Hamilton Wright Mabie
Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgment of our work. We derive more benefit from having our faults pointed out by… — Leonardo da Vinci
I have always been very fond of them (drama critics) . . . I think it is so frightfully clever of them to go night… — Noel Coward
She had been critical of his new torch song, "A Side Order of Heartache, Please," suggesting it could be used as a good way to… — Woody Allen

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