Bags Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Many critics are like woodpeckers, who, instead of enjoying the fruit and shadow of a tree, hop incessantly around the trunk, pecking holes in…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Critics are a kind of freebooters in the republic of letters--who, like deer, goats and divers other graminivorous animals, gain subsistence by gorging upon…

— Washington Irving

Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think…

— Duke Ellington

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it…

— Brendan Behan

CRITICS are people who aren't happy with themselves and love to find faults in others.

— Nishan Panwar

Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can't do it themselves!

— Anonymous

Criticisms are like homing pigeons. They always return home.

— Dale Carnegie

Critics are critics: their job is to find things wrong with people.

— Ed Kowalczyk

Critics should be to actors what ornithologists are to birds: they can write all they want, but it shouldn't affect them.

— John Simm

Criticism is an alluring substitute for creation, because tearing things down, unlike building them up, really is as easy as falling off a stump.…

— Martha Beck

Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.

— Mason Cooley