Quotes About Criticism

Why," swore Yossarian at him approvingly, "you evil-eyed, mechanicallyaptituded, disaffiliated son of a bitch, did you walk around with anything in your cheeks?

When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as Catch-22 I'm tempted to reply, Who has?

this used to be a pretty good country to live in before they loused it up with their goddam piety.

You are sure to be censured by malevolent Criticks and Bug Writers, who will abuse you while you are serving them, and wound your Character in nameless Pamphlets, thereby resembling those little dirty stinking Insects that attack us only in the dark, disturbing our Repose, molesting and wounding us while our Sweat and Blood is contributing to their Subsistence. Benjamin Franklin to Robert Morris JULY 26, 1781

What you love, you increase. What you criticize, fades out of your life.

The quickest way to cause wealth to take wings to fly away is to criticize or condemn others who have more money than you.

Third, the New Atheists reserve their most venomous attacks for Christianity. While they do criticize Buddhism, Islam, Mormonism, and other religions, their target is clearly the biblical God.

Hating The Great Gatsby (the novel) is like spitting into the Grand Canyon. It will not be going away anytime soon, but you will be.

My governing principle as a critic is to call attention solely to books and writers that merit such attention, and to avoid whenever possible reviewing books "negatively" except in those instances in which the "negative" is countered by an admiring consideration of earlier books by the same author.

The Lord simply told me, "I am the One Who called you. Don't worry about what people think. If you do, you are going to be worrying all your life because the devil will never stop finding people who will think something unkind about you." In

Words have a tremendous impact on all our lives. I know people who have lived lives of crippling insecurity because their parents spoke words of judgment, criticism, and failure to them on a regular basis.

No matter what you do, 10% of the population will not like you.

The Log in My Eye You hypocrite, first get the beam of timber out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the tiny particle out of your brother's eye. MATTHEW 7:5

Singurul mod de a nu fi criticat niciodat? este s? nu faci nimic, dar chiar ?i atunci vei fi criticat c? e?ti lene? ?i nu faci nimic.

When virtues are pointed out first, flaws seem less insurmountable.

If being ugly was a crime, they'd be hunting that woman down with helicopters and bloodhounds.

Tout homme qui dirige, qui fait quelque chose, a contre lui ceux qui voudraient faire la même chose, ceux qui font précisément le contraire et surtout la grande armée des gens, d'autant plus sévères, qu'ils ne font rien du tout.

She looked at me in a troubled sort of way, the way I look today at people who rave about the food at Applebee's or the Olive Garden.

If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if you behave properly wit those holding divergent views from you or who criticize you, then you deserve to be credited with having an excellent character. (p. 99)

Baldwin wrote in Notes of a Native Son that because he loved America "more than any other country in the world," he insisted on the right "to criticize her perpetually."49 Our love for black America demands no less.

You hear what the dean said about Jesus Christ? 'Sure He's a good teacher, but what's He published?

I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty.

A people never hears censure of itself.

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.