Acceptance Quote by Edmund Clarence Stedman

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is…

— Theodore Roosevelt

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot…

— Gustave Flaubert

A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.

— Richard Le Gallienne

Criticism is infested with the cant of materialism, which assumes that manual skill and activity is the first merit of all men, and disparages…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.

— Agnes Repplier

You cannot criticize a man for going to work. You really cannot.

— Marco Pierre White

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. The power of invention has been conferred by nature…

— Samuel Johnson

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

— John Mason Brown

Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes.

— Seneca the Younger

The first glance at History convinces us that the actions of men proceed from their needs, their passions, their characters and talents; and impresses…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

A "critic" is a man who creates nothing.

— Robert A. Heinlein

It's not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of the deeds…

— Theodore Roosevelt