Quotes About Criticism

It is easy to be a critic, but the only effective critics are those who truly love – and show they love – those whom they criticise.

Uncritical followership and habits of silent obedience give rise to the corruptions of power, or sometimes simply to avoidable catastrophes. For

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

For conversation well endu'd;She calls it witty to be rude;And, placing raillery in railing,Will tell aloud your greatest failing.

Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets with in the world, and that so very few are offended with it.

The women look each other over as they chat, measuring thighs, bellies, hips, and asses, taking into account body types and recent pregnancies. They silently evaluate and pass judgment, realigning themselves in the pecking order. It's a brutal business, being a woman.

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again.... We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

Politicians who complain about the media are like sailors who complain about the sea.

desconectó dichos archivos primero, ocultó su origen después y, por último, juzgó negativamente a las culturas originarias

The Profits of Religion

La sexualidad sin amor auténtico conduce a un vacío gradual que desemboca en hastío, indiferencia y escepticismo, es decir, una actitud descomprometida en exceso. A veces, incluso, con espíritu crítico podemos descubrir en su trasfondo notas autodestructivas.

We're being lead by an idiot with a crayon.

The man who says that all events are necessitated has no ground for critizing the man who says that not all events are necessitated. For according to him this is itself a necessitated event.

Let It Grow," and it was several years before I realized that I had totally ripped off "Stairway to Heaven," the famous Zeppelin anthem, a cruel justice seeing as how I'd always been such a severe critic of theirs.

A Federal officer called Wyndham "a big bag of wind.

It's so easy to become a grumbler, someone who condemns and carps at everything on principle and sees an ulterior motive behind it.

Madonna is just a hooker that doesn't get paid.

It is unfair to criticize these managers for their response; the criticism should be aimed at senior executives who failed to design a supportive system in which to operate and innovate.

Beware of the man who denounces woman writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell.

I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living on baby food.

As things stand, our culture is far too critical of the individuals who eat junk foods and not critical enough about the corporations that profit from selling them. We spend a lot of time discussing unhealthy foods in terms of individual guilt and willpower and not enough looking at the morality of big food companies that have targeted some of the poorest consumers in the world with products that will make them sick, or the governments that allowed them to do so.

Some critics, and for that matter most of them, I fear, rejoice in faults as buzzards do in carrion, to feed upon it; but a true critic is a surgeon, who cuts away the wen, or imposthume, that he may rejoice in the cleanness of a body restored to health.

Criticism can never instruct or benefit you. Its chief effect is that of a telegram with dubious news. Praise leaves no glow behind, for it is a writer's habit to remember nothing good of himself. I have usually forgotten those who have admired my work, and seldom anyone who disliked it. Obviously, this is because praise is never enough and censure always too much.