Candour Quote by Isaac D'Israeli Download Open image “Candour is the brightest gem of criticism.” — Isaac D'Israeli ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Candour Criticism Gems
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst - the cant… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“Criticism as a form of knowledge is capable of robbing literature not only of its own implicit and explicit ideology but of its ideas… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitter truth we critics must face is that, in the grand scheme of things,… — Disney PIXAR Copy Share
On the whole, however, the critic is far less of a professional faultfinder than is sometimes imagined. He is first of all a virtue-finder, a singer of praise. He is not concerned with getting rid of dross except in so far as it hides the gold. In other words, the destructive side of criticism is purely a subsidiary affair. None… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share
The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing. — Angus Wilson Copy Share Image
The critic does his utmost to blight genius in its infancy; that which rises in spite of him he will not see; and then… — Thomas Love Peacock Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The critic's aim should be to interpret the work they are writing about and help readers appreciate it, by defining and analysing those qualities… — David Cecil Copy Share Image
Bayle, when writing on "Comets," discovered this; for having collected many things applicable to his work, as they stood quoted in some modern writers,… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised. — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
It is generally supposed that where there is no QUOTATION, there will be found most originality; and as people like to lay out their… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive, considered poetical quotation as one of the requisite ornaments… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Style! style! why, all writers will tell you that it is the very thing which can least of all be changed. A man's style… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
There is an art of reading, an art of thinking, and an art of writing. — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract. — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the spectator of… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Theories of genius are the peculiar constructions of our own philosophical times; ages of genius had passed away, and they left no other record… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time: he should impute the seeming defects of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We also believe candour benefits us as managers. The CEO who misleads often in public eventually misleads himself in private. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Such pretensions to nicety in experiments of this nature, are truly laughable! They will be telling us some day of the WEIGHT of the… — Robert Sutton Harrington Copy Share Image
The conversation, like many others I had with people on trains, derived an easy candour from the shared journey, the comfort of the dining… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
We used to think that you could spend your way out of a recession and increase employment by cutting taxes and boosting government spending.… — James Callaghan Copy Share Image
Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
There is a popular superstition that "realism" asserts itself in the cataloguing of a great number of material objects, in explaining mechanical processes, the… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“I have promised to dine at White's, but it is only with an old friend, so I can send him a wire to say… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
