Quotes About Criticism

Woe unto you, when all men shall speak well of you!

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cumin.

Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.

Criticizing another's garden doesn't keep the weeds out of your own.

In the theatre, people talk. Talk, talk until the cows come home about journeys of discovery and about what Hazlitt thought of a line of Shakespeare. I can't stand it.

Gordon Brown ran this bloody country into the ground and the new lot don't have a clue. So everyone's tightening their belts and people like me are the first out the door.

Nothing about that woman is good. Nothing! She's a complete bitch, and you might as well know that I've never had a good review from her.

The Daily Mail had branded the books 'pure porn poison', which the publishers had cheekily reprinted on the cover.

closed my eyes, quietly adding casual racism to the charge sheet against Hawthorne

It's an interesting paradox. The more humane the critics, the more hurtful their opinions.

But that's impossible. They're full of pornography.' I searched for the worst thing I could say about them. 'They objectify women!

I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.

I understand and accept criticisms of my work, provided they are done with professional criteria and arguments.

Democracy provides the space for open criticism.

It might be an idea for all literary critics to read the books they analyse aloud - it certainly helps to fix them in the mind, while providing a readymade seminar with your audience.

Even though ripping on those of the Christian cloth is nothing new, edgy, or thought provoking, Hollywood feels the need to do it with each of their religiously overtoned talkies.

I would never be like, 'Hey, I'm fat!' or, like, be psyched if somebody calls me fat in a review.

The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.

When a Scottish player goes down the road you're always going to get doubters. You always get people saying you're from a pub league.

My first big one-person show was basically a combination of my family, me during puberty, embarrassing newspaper articles that were written about me in high school, my first modeling photos, and terrible things that people said about me on the Internet.

The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as running mate is the towering example of his poor judgment. Palin's ignorance of public affairs is monumental.