Critics Quote by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

“James's critical genius comes out most tellingly in his mastery over, his baffling escape from, Ideas; a mastery and an escape which are perhaps…

— T.S. Eliot

Take [Stéphane] Mallarme. I hold him to be the greatest of French poets, and I have taken some time to understand him !

— Jean-Paul Sartre

David Rockefeller is the most conspicuous representative today of the ruling class, a multinational fraternity of men who shape the global economy and manage…

— Bill Moyers

Nearly all the writing of our time is likely to disappear in a hundred years. Certainly most readers - and nearly all critics -…

— Michael Dirda

Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's a lot of stuff I want to do, just things that I want to explore that don't involve show business. I'm going to…

— Charlie Sheen

This one goes out to all my critics: don't you feel stupid? Look how I did it. Look how it came to pass when…

— Nicki Minaj

The Yippies, their lifestyle is different from mine. But I consider Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman inspired critics of the kind of society that…

— David Dellinger

I get that the media wants us to play theater critics and critique every other proposal. What I'm focusing on are my own policy…

— Ted Cruz

Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined.

— James Cook

There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square.

— John Waters

Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley…

— Mark Steyn

I reject criticism because the last thing I wanted was to sit there and look at people talking. I think people are conditioned to…

— Matt Tyrnauer

Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But…

— Whitney Balliett

The worst advice? 'Don't listen to the critics.' I think that you really ought to listen to the critics, because sometimes they're telling you…

— Stephen King