Critics Quote by Murray Kempton

A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.

— Tyne Daly

“A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war and shoots the injured.”

— Murray Kempton

“A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwords comes out shooting the wounded.”

— Tyne Daly

A critic is a soldier that fires on his own men.

— Jean-Luc Godard

“A critic is someone who comes down off the mountain after the battle and shoots the wounded.”

— Sander Vanocur

A critic is someone who meddles with something that is none of his business.

— Paul Gauguin

A critic is a person who rationalizes his likes and dislikes in such impressive language that the layman thinks he is reasoning instead of…

— Helen McCloy

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

— John Mason Brown

Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.

— Ernest Hemingway

A critic is a man who writes about things he doesn't like

— Anonymous

critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.

— Ambrose Bierce

A literary critic is a person who finds meaning in literature that the author didn't know was there.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow