Criticism Quotes

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

He has a right to criticize who has a heart to help.

China and the U.S. are two societies with very different attitudes towards opinion and criticism. In...

[L]ife is a phenomenon in need of criticism, for we are, as fallen creatures, in permanent danger of...

This book is dedicated to Israel's constructive and nuanced critics, whose rational voices are too o...

Let us return for a moment to Lady Lovelace’s objection, which stated that the machine can only do w...

Let us return for a moment to Lady Lovelace’s objection, which stated that the machine can only do w...

Nature gives children great emotional resilience to help them survive the oppressions of being small...

Whenever those immersed in the bureaucratic culture of the age try to think their way through to the...

He liked to think of himself as a merciless vivisector probing into the palpitating entrails of his ...

Most critics, fond of subservient artstill make the whole depend upon a part.They talk of principles...

Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.

The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of cr...

The absence of models, in literature as in life, to say nothing of painting, is an occupational haza...

Success needs vision to see, passion to transcend, patience to withstand and the character to overco...

The tower of success stands on the pillars of vision, action, patience and the character to withstan...

The good critic is he who narrates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.

Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

...if anyone who speaks up to criticise something obviously evil is punished merely for speaking, ci...

The Author To Her BookThou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain,Who after birth did'st by my side...

Though in single life your joys may not be very many, your sorrows, at least will not be more than y...

If Makar Denisych was just a clerk or a junior manager, then no one would have dared talk to him in ...

If Makar Denisych was just a clerk or a junior manager, then no one would have dared talk to him in ...

We knock upon silence for an answering music.

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

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

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

People hate to see their vices depicted, but vice is terrible and it should be depicted.

Don't think for a minute that bad publicity and endless criticism don't leave their claw marks on ev...

Different authors have different points of view. You can't just say, 'I believe in the Bible.

Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious new...

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.

He left to do whatever editors do.

Guard your tongue, and use it for good instead of evil. How many marriages or friendships have been ...

Guard your tongue, and use it for good instead of evil. How many marriages or friendships have been ...

Guard your tongue, and use it for good instead of evil. How many marriages or friendships have been ...

Guard your tongue, and use it for good instead of evil. How many marriages or friendships have been ...

Guard your tongue, and use it for good instead of evil. How many marriages or friendships have been ...

Guard your tongue, and use it for good instead of evil. How many marriages or friendships have been ...

Guard your tongue, and use it for good instead of evil. How many marriages or friendships have been ...

Guard your tongue, and use it for good instead of evil. How many marriages or friendships have been ...

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

I don't want to make people mad. I just... well, how can people get better if you don't tell them wh...

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem: they know how it's done they've seen it done every day but th...

I only accept and pay attention to feedback from people who are also in the arena. If you're occasio...

If you are ever called upon to chasten a person, never chasten beyond the balm you have within you t...

The future is unwritten. there are best case scenarios. There are worst-case scenarios. both of them...

A clever schoolboy's reaction to his reading is most naturally expressed by parody or imitation.

The truth is not that we need the critics in order to enjoy the authors, but that we need the author...

The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out...

The true reader reads every work seriously in the sense that he reads it whole-heartedly, makes hims...

Many reviews are useless because, while purporting to condemn the book, they only reveal the reviewe...

If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon rea...

We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way....

Criticism at its best is re-creative, not spirit-killing.

Those who make uncritical observations or fraudulent claims lead us into error and deflect us from t...

Why do we put up with it? Do we like to be criticized? No, no scientist enjoys it. Every scientist f...

deluded or not, supporters of superstition and pseudoscience are human beings with real feelings, wh...

I discovered very quickly that criticism is a form of optimism, and that when you are silent about t...

The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remai...

Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.

There was no sense to life, to the structure of things. D.H. Lawrence had known that. You needed lov...

I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man's opinion of ...

In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-cl...

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to a...

She recognized in Kelsey the nationalism of liberal Americans who copiously criticized America but d...

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about do...

It's far easier to write why something is terrible than why it's good. If you're reviewing a film an...

There’s one kind of writing that’s always easy: Picking out something obviously stupid and reiterati...

It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.

Every garden looks beautiful in May.' Meaning: Everyone is somewhat attractive when she's young.

There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And bec...

Apparently Burgess shares the gutter press assumption that those who achieve fame should be made to ...

Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying ...

The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-con...

Let's realise that criticisms are like homing pigeons. They always return home. Let's realise that t...

Many people begin their criticism with sincere praise followed by the word "but", which signals that...

Being a critic is a terrific method for killing your love of art

Now, if there were an Olympics for misleading, mismanaging and misappropriating then this administra...

Why do they [Americans] quarrel, why do they hate Negroes, Indians, even Germans, why do they not ha...

His words leap across rivers and mountains but his thoughts are still only six inches long.

The Machine is the friend of ideas and the enemy of superstition: the Machine is omnipotent, eternal...

Some reviews give pain. This is regrettable, but no author has the right to whine. He was not oblige...

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and him...

In criticism, I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose...

Genius moves to creation, not to destruction. Only a very few have combined both.

Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride,...

I take criticism so seriously as to believe that, even in the midst of a battle in which one is unmi...

To escape criticism - do nothing say nothing be nothing.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

So whenever that brittle voice of dissatisfaction emerges within me, I can say "Ah, my ego! There yo...

Constantly seek criticism. A well thought out critique of whatever you’re doing is as valuable as go...

Don’t criticize what you don’t understand, son. You never walked in that man’s shoes.

You're afraid of criticism,' she says. 'But criticism is a sign of life! You know who doesn't get cr...

Hem,' he said, and I knew he was a critic now, since, in conversation, they put your name at the beg...

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's n...

I've always looked on criticism as a sort of envious tribute.

A man's memory is bound to be a distortion of his past in accordance with his present interests, and...