Criticism Quotes

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...

[His research into biblical criticism had lead him to the conclusion that most of what was contained...

Giving importance to what we think because we thought it, taking our own selves not only (to quote t...

How is he made? Oftentimes bitter, sometimes sweet, seldom even wide-awake, architectural criticism ...

Herr Kafka, essen Sie keine Eier." (As one and only piece of dialog K recalls from his meeting with ...

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that decei...

If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.

A great truth wants to be criticized not idolized

Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang ...

In his book Real Presences, George Steiner asks us to "imagine a society in which all talk about the...

It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break ...

How we lavish our money and worship on Shakespeare without in the least knowing why!

And if I am further pressed to declare straightforwardly whether I mean to disparage these authoriti...

If, in the Judaic perception, the language of the Adamic was that of love, the grammars of fallen ma...

I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite...

He's the President—it's the responsibility of every citizen to criticize aggressively when they thin...

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning th...

People quickly grow accustomed to being the slaves of mystery.

You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything

I have often misunderstood men grossly, and I have misrepresented them when I understood them, sacri...

Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sym...

I define influence simply as literary love, tempered by defense. The defenses vary from poet to poet...

I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be ...

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

Many scholars forget, it seems to me, that our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends mo...

I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the in...

These questions of taste, of feeling, of inheritance, need no settlement. Everyone carries his own i...

When you lay down a proposition which is forthwith controverted, it is of course optional with you t...

Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always e...

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticism...

A man inherited a field in which was an accumulation of old stone, part of an older hall. Of the old...

Nature fits all her children with something to do He who would write and can't write can surely rev...

I don't want to see the uncut version of anything.