Amenities Quote by Joseph Joubert

“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

“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 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

The more we use words that in any way imply criticism, the more difficult it is for people to stay connected to the beauty…

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

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

“The absence of ‘criticism’ is not Appreciation!!!”

— Harrish Sai Raman

Criticism occupies the lowest place in the literary hierarchy: as regards form, almost always; and as regards moral value, incontestably. It comes after rhyming…

— Gustave Flaubert

I appreciate good criticism and I think it's really important. I don't like it when it's consumer advocacy, like how you should spend your…

— Adam Rapp

Criticism is the price of ambition.

— Robin Sharma

Criticism can be effective when there is something that must be destroyed or dissolved, but it is capable only of harm when there is…

— Carl Jung

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

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

— Aristotle