Criticism Quote by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Download Open image “A literary woman's best critic is her husband.” — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Criticism Critics Husband Literary criticism Marriage Women
My wife is the most savage critic. She doesn't feel intimidated by my reputation. As far as she's concerned, she's just criticising a boyfriend… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Women excel more in literary judgment than in literary production,--they are better critics than authors. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
“Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art of living.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could! — Brian Lumley Copy Share Image
In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
On the whole, most biographies about literary women tend to diagnose them. — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls. — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in presenting characters… — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
“Her husband and her children did not consider her beyond criticism. She belonged to them; whatever she did affected them; their pride, their good… — Elisabeth Sanxay Holding Copy Share Image
The literary artist will ... portray what he knows, and little else. Imagination is built upon knowledge, and his dreams will rest upon his… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
Next to the love between man and his Creator, The love of one man and one woman, Is the loftiest and the most illusive… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims. — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
Surely it is one of the requisites of a tasteful garb that the expression of effort to please shall be wanting in it; that… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
To exist as an advertisement of her husband's income, or her father's generosity, has become a second nature to many a woman who must… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
... to work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think I always… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
Possibly the Creator did not make the world chiefly for the purpose of providing studies for gifted novelists; but if He had done so,… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done. — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age… sympathy as a fine art is… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
The rainiest nights, like the rainiest lives, are by no means the saddest. — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
... life is moral responsibility. Life is several other things, we do not deny. It is beauty, it is joy, it is tragedy, it… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I receive something we might euphemistically call an 'inappropriately hostile' response - that is to say, more than fair criticism or even fair anger… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
For some reason, we are truly convinced that if we criticize ourselves, the criticism will lead to change. If we are harsh, we believe… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm more comfortable modelling as a man because I don't get any criticism. — Rain Dove Copy Share Image
I don't mind positive criticism, but when it is negative and personal, it is quite hard. — Inzamam-ul-Haq Copy Share Image
Judge a person not by his ability to make money but by his ability to retain it. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Everything is allowable in literature, but what is not allowable in criticism is objection on the grounds of probability. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Lots of relationships fail because we spend more time pointing out each other's mistakes and not enough time enjoying each other's company. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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