Criticism Quotes

Having a sharp tongue will cut your throat

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He who throws dirt always loses ground.

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For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.

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Those who can -- do. Those who can't -- criticize.

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The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.

Charles Buxton

Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.

Charles Buxton

Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.

Zig Ziglar

There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.

Zig Ziglar

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

Benjamin Franklin

Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.

Raymond Chandler

It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence that they should write entertainingly about something which is rarely worth writing about at all.

Raymond Chandler

Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.

Jean de la Bruyere

You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn't kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran into him chasing the money changers out of the temple.

Ernest Hemingway

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If what they are saying about you is true, mend your ways. If it isn't true, forget it, and go on and serve the Lord.

H. A. Ironside

When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although one did not know it. Hence one is inclined to love him who makes us feel it, for he has not shown us his own riches, but ours.

Blaise Pascal

When a natural discourse paints a passion or an effect, one feels within oneself the truth of what one reads, which was there before, although one did not know it. Hence one is inclined to love him who makes us feel it, for he has not shown us his own riches, but ours.

Blaise Pascal

It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.

Marshall McLuhan

I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.

Victor Hugo

Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.

Michel de Montaigne