Quotes About Opinion

Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.

Book reviewers are little old ladies of both sexes.

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.

The test of a good critic is whether he knows when and how to believe on insufficient evidence.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

I get a little angry about this highhanded scrapping of the look of things. What else have we to go by? How else can the average person form an opinion of a girl's sense of values or even of her chastity except by the looks of her conduct?

Democracy is a festival of mediocrity.

We are not troubled by things, but by the opinion which we have of things.

Men are not influenced by things, but by their thoughts about things.

Public opinion: a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for any one of us who is not content to be the average man.

Fame is but the breath of the people, and that often unwholesome.

Force and not opinion is the queen of the world; but it is opinion that uses the force.

There is no banquet but some dislike something in it.

Forty million Frenchmen can't be wrong.

I don't care a damn for your loyal service when you think I am right; when I really want it most is when you think I am wrong.

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

Government in the last analysis is organised opinion. Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.

I do not have a problem, I enjoy gambling, but I think people are trying to make it seem like I have a problem, because people really don't know.

I don't really care how the Patriots are perceived, truthfully. I really don't. I really don't. Look, if you're a fan of our team, you root for us, you believe in our team, and you believe in what we're trying to accomplish. If you're not a fan of us, you have a different opinion.