Books Quote by John Dryden

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.

— Samuel Johnson

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 a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. The power of invention has been conferred by nature…

— Samuel Johnson

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

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 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

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 not a circumscription or a set of prohibitions. It provides fixed points of departure. It may startle a dull reader into alertness.”

— Ezra Pound

“Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.          —Aristotle”

— Danielle LaPorte

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

— Anonymous

Valid criticism is something that we are open for, and we take it in the spirit in which it is given and try to…

— Urjit Patel

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