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A man must serve his time to every trade save censure -- critics all are ready made.
Lord (George Gordon) Byron
Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.
Desiderius Erasmus
The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.
Walter Benjamin
It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shouting at you.
Woodrow Wilson
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
Walter Winchell
Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.
John Steinbeck
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.
Jean de la Bruyere
If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.
Lou Holtz
You're never s good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.
Let me walk three weeks in the footsteps of my enemy, carry the same burden, have the same trials as he, before I say one word to criticize.
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The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.
Johann von Goethe
Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture; it's a really stupid thing to want to do.
Elvis Costello
A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.
Jean Baudrillard
The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.
William Faulkner
What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.
Jean Cocteau
The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws.
Remy de Gourmont
Fix the problem, not the blame.
Japanese Proverb
There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
Sinclair Lewis