Amount Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Most modern literary criticism is literary and nothing else—that is, it concentrates on an author's style and thinks it rather vulgar to notice his…

— George Orwell

I have observed that vulgar readers almost always lose their veneration for the writings of the genius with whom they have had personal intercourse.

— Egerton Brydges

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

Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than…

— Jean de la Bruyere

The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

— William Gilmore Simms

Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than…

— Jean de la Bruyere

The insolence of the vulgar is in proportion to their ignorance. They treat everything with contempt which they do not understand.

— William Hazlitt

I think criticism is often so pallid, so tame. I wish it were more performative.

— Amitava Kumar

It seems this is an age of clever critics who keep bewailing the fact that there are no works worthy of criticism.

— Sylvia Plath

“If we tolerate vulgarity our future will sway and fall under a burden of ignorance. It need not be so. We have the brains…

— Maya Angelou

If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not…

— Jonathan Swift

If you cant be criticized for it, its probably not remarkable. Are you devoting yourself to something devoid of criticism?

— Ritu Ghatourey