Admire Quote by Max Beerbohm

The Impossible Generalized Man today is the critic who believes in loving those unworthy of love as well as those worthy -yet believes this…

— Nelson Algren

It has been rightly said that what a critic wants to understand he must, at one time, have deeply loved, even if only for…

— Martin Esslin

The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing.

— Angus Wilson

“It's impossible to love something and judge it at the same time.”

— Austin Gary

If one hates they cannot love. If one loves they cannot hate.

— Isiahnunn

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on…

— John Keats

“There are certain natures which cannot have love on one side without hatred on the other.”

— Victor Hugo

He loves not who does not see the faults of the beloved as virtues.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“You can't love someone without imaginative sympathy, without beginning to see the world from another point of view. You can't be a good lover,…

— Julian Barnes

“The devotee is entirely free to criticise; the fanatic can safely be a sceptic. Love is not blind; that is the last thing it…

— G.K. Chesterton

If an individual is able to love productively, he loves himself, too; if he can love only others, he cannot love at all.

— Erich Fromm

Anyone who renounces the world must love all men, for he renounces their world too. He thus begins to have some inkling of the…

— Franz Kafka