Criticism Quote by Walter Savage Landor Download Open image “An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.” — Walter Savage Landor ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Criticism Feels Ingenious Mind Praise Psychology Reproof
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“Sourness and bitterness come from the interfering and unappreciative mind. Life itself, when understood and utilized for what it is, is sweet.” — Benjamin Hoff Copy Share Image
We feel a kind of bittersweet pricking of malicious delight in contemplating the misfortunes of others. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Bitterness, principle of your determination, your mode of action, and understanding, is the one fixed point in your oscillation between disgust for the world… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness. — Robert Menzies Copy Share Image
You cannot imagine what sorrow and anger seize one's whole soul when a great idea, which one has long and piously revered, is picked… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise. — Horace Copy Share Image
We often select envenomed praise which, by a reaction upon those we praise, shows faults we could not have shown by other means. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Sentimentalists ... adopt whatever merit is in good repute, and almost make it hateful with their praise. The warmer their expressions, the colder we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
My thoughts, I guess, are bitter; who but the bitter have thoughts? — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We seldom think of what we have but always of what we lack. Therefore, rather than grateful, we are bitter. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Ah what avails the sceptred race, Ah what the form divine! What every virtue, every grace! Rose Aylmer, all were thine. Rose Aylmer, whom… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
As there are some flowers which you should smell but slightly to extract all that is pleasant in them ... so there are some… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost what subject he may. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The habit of pleasing by flattery makes a language soft; the fear of offending by truth makes it circuitous and conventional. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I receive something we might euphemistically call an 'inappropriately hostile' response - that is to say, more than fair criticism or even fair anger… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
For some reason, we are truly convinced that if we criticize ourselves, the criticism will lead to change. If we are harsh, we believe… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
I reject criticism because the last thing I wanted was to sit there and look at people talking. I think people are conditioned to… — Matt Tyrnauer Copy Share Image
I'm more comfortable modelling as a man because I don't get any criticism. — Rain Dove Copy Share Image
I don't mind positive criticism, but when it is negative and personal, it is quite hard. — Inzamam-ul-Haq Copy Share Image
Judge a person not by his ability to make money but by his ability to retain it. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
Everything is allowable in literature, but what is not allowable in criticism is objection on the grounds of probability. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
Lots of relationships fail because we spend more time pointing out each other's mistakes and not enough time enjoying each other's company. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
