Critics Quote by Saint Basil

In writing, as in life, faults are endured without disgust when they are associated with transcendent merit, and may be sometimes recommended to weak…

— Samuel Johnson

Words are delicate instruments: How to use them so that, after having read the poem, the taste remaining is not of the words themselves,…

— Luljeta Lleshanaku

“A substantial literature on “verbal overshadowing,” for instance, suggests that consciously reflecting on our perceptions or evaluations of taste, and then being forced to…

— Edward Slingerland

As a man of pleasure, by a vain attempt to be more happy than any man can be, is often more miserable than most…

— Charles Caleb Colton

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

Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats…

— E. F. Benson

The loss of these tastes [for poetry and music] is a loss of happiness, and may possibly be injurious to the intellect, and more…

— Charles Darwin

Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.

— Francis Bacon

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.

— Kenneth Branagh

“Too much brightness blinds the eyes. Too much sound deafens the ears. Too much flavour ruins the tongue. Chasing desires to excess turns your…

— Laozi

Errors of taste are very often the outward sign of a deep fault of sensibility.

— Jonathan Miller