Average Quote by Constant Lambert

“There is something essentially ridiculous about critics, anyway: what is good is good without our saying so, and beneath all our majesty we know…

— Randall Jarrell

“Lord, lord, the snobbery of the English!”

— Virginia Woolf

“One of the subtlest means of deceiving, at least as long as possible, and of successfully representing oneself to be stupider than one really…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.”

— Washington Irving

“For what is more foolish than for a man to study nothing else than how to please himself? To make himself the object of…

— Erasmus

Everybody wants to be a critic: a critic without the actual accolades to be a critic.

— Bobby Lashley

To be a mere verbal critic is what no man of genius would be if he could; but to be a critic of true…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of…

— Miguel de Cervantes

“Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.          —Aristotle”

— Danielle LaPorte

critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.

— Ambrose Bierce

“he was no mountaineer when he decided to climb the Hindu Kush. A few days scrambling on the rocks in Wales, enchantingly chronicled here,…

— Eric Newby

A critic is a man who writes about things he doesn't like

— Anonymous