Critics Quote by Ezra Pound

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

— Ambrose Bierce

A critic is someone who meddles with something that is none of his business.

— Paul Gauguin

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

— Anonymous

A critic is a person who rationalizes his likes and dislikes in such impressive language that the layman thinks he is reasoning instead of…

— Helen McCloy

A critic is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this;…

— Robert A. Heinlein

A "critic" is a man who creates nothing.

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

— John Mason Brown

A critic knows more than the author he criticizes, or just as much, or at least somewhat less.

— Henry Edward Manning

“Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks.”

— Shannon L. Alder

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

In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of…

— John Steinbeck

A young critic is like a boy with a gun; he fires at every living thing he sees. He thinks only of his own…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow