Admiring Quote by Walter Bagehot

“[H]er attention squarely on the master of the house, whose displeasure with her looked mild but definite. Oh, but wasn’t it terrible when the…

— Meredith Duran

“As no two persons see the same thing with the same eyes, my view of hospital life must be taken through my glass, and…

— Louisa May Alcott

“The broad white road unrolled before the long procession, the sun and sky surveyed it cloudless, the wind tossed the tree boughs above it,…

— Charlotte Brontë

“There is something essentially ridiculous about critics, anyway: what is good is good without our saying so, and beneath all our majesty we know…

— Randall Jarrell

“We choose not to be remarkable because we’re worried about criticism.”

— Seth Godin

Critic's delight: scolding the Mighty Dead.

— Mason Cooley

“The truth is,” she said shakily, “that I am scared to death of being here.” “I know you are,” he said, sobering, “but I…

— Judith McNaught

“The spectacles of pain and disgrace I see around me, the ignorance, the unthinking vice, the poverty and the lack of hope, and oh,…

— Hilary Mantel

“He was perfectly astonished with the historical account gave him of our affairs during the last century; protesting “it was only a heap of…

— Jonathan Swift

“That was thirteen hundred years ago. This is really no improvement upon the work of the Roman augurs. Has the trade of interpreting the…

— Mark Twain

“Let's realise that criticisms are like homing pigeons. They always return home. Let's realise that the person we are going to correct and condemn…

— Dale Carnegie

“[The critic] serves up his erudition in strong doses; he pours out all the knowledge he got up the day before in some library…

— Théophile Gautier