Criticism Quote by William Congreve

“It raises my spleen more than any thing, to have the pretence of being asked, of being given a choice, and at the same…

— Jane Austen

Tis not the wholesome sharp mortality, Or modest anger of a satiric spirit, That hurts or wounds the body of a state, But the…

— Ben Jonson

“The fact that alienated people can be counted on to vent their spleen in ineffectual directions—by fighting among themselves—relieves the government of the need…

— Chris Hedges

“It raises my spleen more than anything.”

— Jane Austen

“The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live, and so far as he…

— Flannery O'Connor

“[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

“Why," he was saying, "why should one not tolerate this life, since so little suffices to deprive one of it? So little brings it…

— Raymond Queneau

“The view which he has given of human life has a melancholy hue, but he feels conscious that he has drawn these dark tints…

— Thomas Malthus

“Your efforts to instil either vainglory or false modesty into the patient will therefore be met from the Enemy’s side with the obvious reminder…

— C.S. Lewis

“A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more than even the whole man—he must view the man in his world.”

— Harvey Cushing

“suffering. Take the fate of the sick—especially those who are incurable. I once read a letter written by a young invalid, in which he…

— Viktor E. Frankl

“A feeble body makes a feeble mind. I do not know what doctors cure us of, but I know this: they infect us with…

— Rousseau, Jean-Jacques