Bad heart Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps…

— Samuel Johnson

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

A spirit of criticism, if indulged in, leads to a censoriousness of disposition that is destructive of all nobler feeling. The man who lives…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes him strive to justify himself. Criticism is dangerous, because it…

— Dale Carnegie

Criticism is the endeavour to find, to know, to love, to recommend, not only the best, but all the good, that has been known…

— George Saintsbury

Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art. Critical…

— Henri Frederic Amiel

“Criticism is an act of love. We can never learn those people we love, but we can learn about them in such ways as…

— Richard L. McGuire

Criticism is now become mere hangman's work, and meddles only with the faults of authors ; nay, the critic is disgusted less with their…

— John Dryden

Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

Either criticism is no good at all (a very defensible position) or else criticism means saying about an author the very things that would…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to…

— Winston Churchill

“In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their…

— Disney PIXAR