Ability Quote by Joyce Rachelle

“However, it must not be assumed that bullshit always and necessarily has pretentiousness as its motive.”

— Harry G. Frankfurt

“A classical education saves you from being fooled by pretentiousness, which is what most current fiction is too full of.”

— Raymond Chandler

“If you had a smattering of education you would realize that perfection of form can give validity to any sentiment, however preposterous.”

— Margery Sharp

“But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound.”

— Herman Melville

“But in those whom no necessity forces to turn Author, who merely write for fame, and have full leisure to polish their compositions, faults…

— Matthew Lewis

“Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world,…

— Henry James

“The best criticism, and it is uncommon, is of this sort that dissolves considerations of content into those of form.”

— Susan Sontag

“To engage with criticism, is on some level, a validation of that which otherwise would go unnoticed.”

— Jordan Carl Curtis

“Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings. Things aren't all…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“True virtue is knowing the self not by intellectual knowledge but by pure silence.”

— Amit Ray

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world…

— Joseph Addison

“A scholar must not only be capable of hard, often totally resultless work - he must actually relish it.”

— Richard D. Altick