Delight Quote by Mason Cooley Download Open image “Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.” — Mason Cooley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Delight Joy
“[The critic] serves up his erudition in strong doses; he pours out all the knowledge he got up the day before in some library… — Théophile Gautier Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“There is something essentially ridiculous about critics, anyway: what is good is good without our saying so, and beneath all our majesty we know… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
A lot of praise is given to very mediocre work. Critics have lost their taste, hearing, and eyesight. — Steven Berkoff Copy Share Image
On the whole, however, the critic is far less of a professional faultfinder than is sometimes imagined. He is first of all a virtue-finder,… — Robert Wilson Lynd Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Recognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
An important job of the critic is to savage what is mediocre or meretricious. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Even the most abject have a sense of superiority based on powerful though undefined merits. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Literary tradition is full of lies about poverty-the jolly beggar, the poor but happy milkmaid, the wholesome diet of porridge, etc. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
My intentions go one way, my desires another. Thus I feel both self-indulgent and deprived. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
She smiled with all the delight of a kid on Christmas morning and said, "Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die." -… — John Green Copy Share Image
Shhh.” He put a finger to her lips. “Hear me out. I cannot deny that I would've liked to have made babies with you.… — Elizabeth Hoyt Copy Share Image
There is a spirit which I feel that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things,… — James Nayler Copy Share Image
There was an Old Man of Messina, Whose daughter was named Opsibeena; She wore a small wig, and rode out on a pig, To… — Edward Lear Copy Share Image
A real flame of love is a subtle thing. It burns as a will-o'-the-wisp, dancing onward to fairy lands of delight. It roars as… — Theodore Dreiser Copy Share Image
Benefits received are a delight to us as long as we think we can requite them; when that possibility is far exceeded, they are… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
All the world's bravery that delights our eyes is but thy several liveries. — Abraham Cowley Copy Share Image
It might be lonelier Without the Loneliness - I’m so accustomed to my Fate - Perhaps the Other - Peace - Would interrupt the… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open… — Aaron Betsky Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Every natural power exhilarates; a true talent delights the possessor first. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we are to define science, ... it does not consist so much in knowing, nor even in "organized knowledge," as it does in… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
