Books Quote by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

“Here the phenomenologist has nothing in common with the literary critic who, as has frequently been noted, judges a work that he could not…

— Gaston Bachelard

A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon…

— Jonathan Swift

When the author has no idea of what to reply to a critic, he then likes to say: you could not do it better…

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

— John Mason Brown

The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

— Pauline Kael

To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and 90 percent gall and egomania…

— Judith Crist

The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

— Frederic Raphael

I remember the early 1980s, when I first got one of these fabulous film critic jobs. The downside was sitting through 'Splatteria III: The…

— Stephen Hunter

When a critic sets himself up as an arbiter of morality, a judge of the matter and not the manner of a work, he…

— Edward Albee

If I weren't an actor, I'd either be a teacher or a critic.

— Dennis Haysbert

The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms.

— Joseph Conrad

“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting…

— Samuel Johnson