Critic Quote by E.B. White

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review…

— E. B. White

“I didn’t like the play, but than I saw it under adverse conditions – the curtain was up. ”

— George S. Kaufman

“For a while, Criticism travels side by side with the Work, then Criticism vanishes and it's the Readers who keep pace. The journey may…

— Roberto Bolano

The critic does his utmost to blight genius in its infancy; that which rises in spite of him he will not see; and then…

— Thomas Love Peacock

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

— John Steinbeck

Critics have to sit through an awful lot of rubbish, and you feel really sorry for them. In fact, I've been in a play…

— Diana Rigg

I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I…

— Barbra Streisand

“The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.”

— D.H. Lawrence

“The critic's aim should be to interpret the work they are writing about and help readers appreciate it, by defining and analysing those qualities…

— David Cecil

The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights, actors and audiences - a figure dreaded, and occasionally comic, but never welcome,…

— Robertson Davies

“She now lost every expectation of pleasure. They were confined for the evening at different tables, and she had nothing to hope, but that…

— Jane Austen

The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by…

— George Steiner