Criticism Quote by Lord Chesterfield

Let dull critics feed upon the carcases of plays; give me the taste and the dressing.

— Bill Vaughan

Critics have to sit through an awful lot of rubbish, and you feel really sorry for them. In fact, I've been in a play…

— Diana Rigg

I've been pretty well treated by the critics, but the critics who didn't like my comedies hated them with an unbridled passion, and then…

— David Lindsay-Abaire

A good play puts the audience through a certain ordeal,

— Howard Barker

“In their opinion, a tragedy with so little plot could not conform with the rules of drama. I enquired whether they were complaining that…

— Jean Racine

The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the…

— Orson Welles

“Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous and critical sense either tragedies or comedies, but compositions of a distinct kind; exhibiting the real state…

— Samuel Johnson

I've seen plays that are, objectively, total messes that move me in ways that their tidier brethren do not. That's the romantic mystery of…

— Ben Brantley

My father assigned me to keep his scrapbooks. At first I was interested in reading only his rave notices, but I got interested in…

— Dorothy Fields

“If all, or almost all, the plays that are popular now, imaginative works as well as historical ones, are known to be nonsense and…

— Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

I think it's for the critics to decide whether or not their loathing of the play is based on something other than the play's…

— Edward Albee

Mostly, theater becomes blander and blander as everyone wants the same thing they saw before. The good plays are the ones that don't allow…

— Roger Rees