Accounts Quote by Jean de la Bruyere

Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than…

— Jean de la Bruyere

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

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

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 the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own.

— Anonymous

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 natural; it's just that you have to deal with it positively and use it to improve.

— Inzamam-ul-Haq

Criticism is an interesting beast. For some of us, it can be received, regardless of tone, and used to learn more about ourselves and…

— Mark Brand

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other,…

— Ezra Pound

I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought…

— Matthew Arnold

Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do.

— Thomas Sadoski

Criticism will need an injection of humility that is, a recognition of its role as ancillary to the arts, needed only occasionally in a…

— Jacques Barzun