Criticism Quote by John Lahr

A "critic" is a man who creates nothing.

— Robert A. Heinlein

In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of…

— John Steinbeck

A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.

— Richard Le Gallienne

A critic is someone who meddles with something that is none of his business.

— Paul Gauguin

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

“Your weak side, my diabolic friend, is that you have always been a gull: you take Man at his own valuation. Nothing would flatter…

— George Bernard Shaw

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

The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them.

— Max Beerbohm

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

A critic is a necessary evil, and criticism is an evil necessity.

— Carolyn Wells

“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

A critic is a man who writes about things he doesn't like

— Anonymous