Criticism Quotes

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Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Jus

Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.

William Gilmore Simms

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The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

William Gilmore Simms

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A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same w

A man is a critic when he cannot be an artist, in the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.

Gustave Flaubert

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Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme s

Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poe

A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.

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Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and app

Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible or touchstone.

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Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spir

Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Blame is safer than praise.

Blame is safer than praise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and

Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as

We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism.

TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his mocc

Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.

American Indian Proverb

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Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.

Benjamin Franklin

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No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of in

No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.

Sir Laurence Olivier

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Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.

Christopher Hampton

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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you coul

Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

Oliver Goldsmith

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There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anythin

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

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Criticism should be a casual conversation.

Criticism should be a casual conversation.

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The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken wit

The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid.

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Give me the critic bred in Nature's school, who neither talk

Give me the critic bred in Nature's school, who neither talks by rote, nor thinks by rule; who feeling's honest dictates still obeys, and dares, without a precedent, to praise.

Sir Martin Archer Shee

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