Quotes About Criticism

You do not publish your own verses, Laelius; you criticise mine. Pray cease to criticise mine, or else publish your own.

Actually, when it comes to knocking the Canadian cultural scene, nobody outdoes Canadians, myself included. We are veritable masters of self-deprecation.

You censure this with difficulty because you have allowed it to become customary.

Since barbarism has its pleasures it naturally has its apologists.

The defects of a preacher are soon spied.

Those who complain most are most to be complained of.

Every man in it is a great man, an orator, a critic, a statesman; and therefore every man upon every question must show his oratory, his criticism, and his political abilities.

I think that a society cannot live without a certain number of irrational beliefs. They are protected from criticism and analysis because they are irrational.

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

Said the pot to die kettle, "Get away, blackface."

As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.

I had rather be hissed for a good verse than applauded for a bad one.

Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world - though the cant of hypocrites ihay be the worst - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting.

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.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

To many people dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.

Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick.

To escape criticism - do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Any fool can criticize, and many of them do.

Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, tho' the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, the cant of criticism is the most tormenting.

They talk of my drinking but never my thirst.

There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.

All you'll get from strangers is surface pleasantry or indifference. Only someone who loves you will criticize you.