Books Quote by Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

I told that girl, in the kindest, gentlest way, that I could not consent to deliver judgment upon any one's manuscript, because an individual's…

— Mark Twain

It would be so much better if the critics would come, not on first nights, but on last nights, when they could exercise their…

— Orson Welles

“A final caution to students: in making judgments on literature, always be honest. Do not pretend to like what you really do not like.…

— Laurence Perrine

I always smile when I hear that women cannot excel in mathematics.

— Evelyn Boyd Granville

It's always what you did before. The year before is always so much better. Even when the critics hated what you did then, it…

— Gian Carlo Menotti

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

— H. L. Mencken

The nearest approach to the infallible in literary judgment is represented in the colossal work of the teacher of all these three [Edmund Gosse,…

— Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

“For every bad man and woman I have ever known, I have met . . . an overwhelming number of thoroughly clean and decent…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

Critics are to authors what dogs are to lamp-posts.

— Jeffrey Robinson

How a big majority of book critics and authors have come to believe and to teach that no book is true to life unless…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

There are certain records that you love because the songs are great, but you don't go to them as an example of great production.

— Beck

Both fact and logic seem to me to support the view that savings invested in privately owned economic tools of production amount to an…

— F. A. Harper