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Critics and Criticism QuotesFamous Critics and Criticism quotes by popular authors such as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Laurence Sterne, Elbert Hubbard, Miguel de Cervantes, Benjamin Disraeli and others.
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[highlight-text]Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
Henry Mencken
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[highlight-text]The critic is an overgoer with pen-envy.
Geoffrey Hartman
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[highlight-text]Henry James chews more than he bites off.
Mrs. Henry Adams
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[highlight-text]Any fool can criticize and many of them do.
Archbishop C. Garbett
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[highlight-text]Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick.
Pierre Beaumarchais
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[highlight-text]A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
Channing Pollock
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[highlight-text]Always bring money along with your complaints.
Plautus
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[highlight-text]Said the pot to die kettle 'Get away blackface.'
Miguel de Cervantes
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[highlight-text]Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.
German Proverb
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[highlight-text]I don't want to see the uncut version of anything.
Jean Kerr
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[highlight-text]Book reviewers are little old ladies of both sexes.
John O'Hara
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[highlight-text]He has a right to criticize who has a heart to help.
Abraham Lincoln
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[highlight-text]A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year.
Polish Proverb
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[highlight-text]To avoid criticism do nothing say nothing be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard
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[highlight-text]In judging others folks will work overtime for no pay.
Charles Edwin Carruthers
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[highlight-text]Criticism is nothing more than other people's opinion.
Clint Eastwood
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[highlight-text]To escape criticism - do nothing say nothing be nothing.
Elbert Hubbard
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[highlight-text]Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.
Benjamin Disraeli
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[highlight-text]When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
Oscar Wilde
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[highlight-text]A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
Kenneth Tynan
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[highlight-text]A critic at best is a waiter at the great table of literature.
Louis Dudek
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[highlight-text]I had rather be hissed for a good verse than applauded for a bad one.
Victor Hugo
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[highlight-text]Don't judge any man until you have walked two moons in his moccasins.
American Indian Saying
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[highlight-text]Constant indiscriminate approval devalues because it is so predictable.
Kit Reed
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[highlight-text]Reprove not a scorner lest he hate thee; rebuke a wise man and he will love thee.
Bible
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[highlight-text]The good critic is he who narrates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
Anatole France
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[highlight-text]Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.
Mark Twain
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[highlight-text]To many people dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.
John Mason Brown
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[highlight-text]As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair so an unsuccessful author turns critic.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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[highlight-text]His words leap across rivers and mountains but his thoughts are still only six inches long.
E. B. White
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[highlight-text]The test of a good critic is whether he knows when and how to believe on insufficient evidence.
Samuel Butler
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[highlight-text]Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
Christopher Hampton
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[highlight-text]Nature fits all her children with something to do He who would write and can't write can surely review.
James Russell Lowell
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[highlight-text]I am sitting in the smallest room in my house. I have your review in front of me. Soon it will be behind me.
Max Reger
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[highlight-text]Two and two continue to make four in spite of the whine of the amateur for three or the cry of the critic for five.
James McNeill Whistler
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[highlight-text]Nature when she invented manufactured and patented her authors contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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[highlight-text]It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.
George Bernard Shaw
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[highlight-text]Critics are like eunuchs in a harem: they know how it's done they've seen it done every day but they're unable to do it themselves.
Brendan Behan
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[highlight-text]If you are willing to take the punishment you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial the battle ugly is another point.
Lillian Hellman
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[highlight-text]Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world tho' the cant of hypocrites may be the worst the cant of criticism is the most tormenting.
Laurence Sterne
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[highlight-text]What a blessed thing it is that nature when she invented manufactured and patented her audiors contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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[highlight-text]Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites ihay be the worst - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting.
Laurence Sterne
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[highlight-text]The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights actors and audiences - a figure dreaded and occasionally comic but never welcome never loved.
Robertson Davies
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[highlight-text]If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it that's the time to hold your tongue.
Alice Duer Miller
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[highlight-text]More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader and would no more read a book alone if they could help it than have a baby alone.
Randall Jarrell
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[highlight-text]The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism founded upon appreciation of beauty and of intellectual distinction and of duty.
Alfred North Whitehead
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[highlight-text]It is not expected of critics that they should help us to make sense of our lives; they are bound only to attempt the lesser feat of making sense of the ways we try to make sense of our lives.
Frank Kermode
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[highlight-text]Critics are biased and so are readers. (Indeed a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But intelligent readers soon discover how to allow for the windage of their own and a critic's prejudices.
Whitney Balliett