Criticism Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

— Aristotle

Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own.

— Anonymous

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other,…

— Ezra Pound

Criticism is the endeavour to find, to know, to love, to recommend, not only the best, but all the good, that has been known…

— George Saintsbury

Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do.

— Thomas Sadoski

I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought…

— Matthew Arnold

Criticism is just someone's opinion you don't agree with!

— Mariela Dabbah

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps…

— Samuel Johnson

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. The power of invention has been conferred by nature…

— Samuel Johnson

Criticism can be effective when there is something that must be destroyed or dissolved, but it is capable only of harm when there is…

— Carl Jung

People who avoid all criticism fail. It's destructive criticism we need to avoid, not criticism in all forms.

— Tim Ferriss

Criticism is above all a gift, an intuition, a matter of tact and flair; it cannot be taught or demonstrated--it is an art.

— Henri Frederic Amiel