How Quote by Monty Don

Speech to American Horticultural Society; when challenged to use horticulture in a sentence: You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.

— Dorothy Parker

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

— Jean Cocteau

Is there any progress in horticulture? If not, it is dead, uninspiring. We cannot live in the past good as it is; we must…

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

Very often adverse criticism goes to craft, and that sounds an alarm to which attention should be paid.

— Dorothy Salisbury Davis

All the people that criticised me should eat their words.

— Diego Maradona

Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.

— Octavia E. Butler

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

— Christopher Hampton

Asking a writer what he thinks about criticism is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.

— John Osborne

I wish I could give you all the examples over the last two years as secretary of agriculture, where I hear people in rural…

— Tom Vilsack

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs

— John Osborne

The assumption that rigidly rejecting words and phrases that have existed for centuries will have much impact on public attitudes is rather dubious.

— Kay Redfield Jamison

I wouldn't be worth my salt if I weren't attracting some controversy and criticism. Everyone in the world who has done something in life…

— Margaret Thatcher