Cease Quote by Henry Theodore Tuckerman

A "critic" is a man who creates nothing.

— Robert A. Heinlein

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

— Paul Gauguin

A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned.

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Richard Le Gallienne

A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.

— George Bernard Shaw

Unfortunately, many regard the critic as an enemy, instead of seeing him as a guide to the truth.

— Wilhelm Steinitz

“A man who thinks a great deal about himself will try to be many-sided, attempt a theatrical excellence at all points, will try to…

— G.K. Chesterton

Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education…

— Samuel Johnson

The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them.

— Max Beerbohm

The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades

— Mark Twain

He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his faults is his maker.

— Confucius

“In any dispute, it profits one if his adversary thinks him less than fully stable”

— Petronius Jablonski