Quotes About Criticism

No one wants to be hated, in public, by lots of people.

Have you ever seen The Goodbye Girl? Don't watch it if you still want to enjoy romantic comedies. It makes every movie ever made starring Julia Roberts or Sandra Bullock lash itself in shame.

Writing songs is not something I wanted to share with people for a long time. It was precious to me. I didnt want someone to crush it. I waited until I felt strong enough to take the criticism.

Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.

Just so you know, we're on the good side with y'all. We do not want this war, this violence. And we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.

Because I'm anti-war, I've been called pro-Taliban.

I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every reason and supervision for adulation is lacking.

A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.

The war brought things to a head, exposing the utter falsity and rottenness of Kautskyism from its very first day.

Whichever country you are, if you lose games you are criticised. It's only when it's England it's like a new world war.

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war -for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more.

ne možeš u?initi ništa zna?ajno u svijetu ukoliko trošiš vrijeme na kritiziranje drugih zato što ne izgledaju ili se ne ponašaju onako kako ti misliš da bi trebali.

Criticism is the fountainhead of control.

Remember that you always have the right to be treated with respect, and to protest unfair treatment or criticism. It's vital to reinforce those rights with boundaries.

I'd hate to have men coming into my kitchen, snooping around and criticising.

I think most Americans understand that we went through a period in which American leadership was judged quite critically internationally.

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.

Celebrity culture is something that pains me.

Now he's [Cinna] arranging things around my living room: Clothing, fabrics, and sketchbooks with designs he's drawn. I pick one up and examine one of the dresses I supposedly created. You know, I think I show a lot of promise," I say. Get dressed, you worthless thing.

You're hideous, you know that, right?

You have as much charm as a dead slug

Non metterti a fare la parte della principessa sdegnata, la criticò Zaira. Sai benissimo che queste feste sono tutte uguali. Servono ai padroni di casa per mettersi in vetrina, agli ospiti per mostrare ricchezze lecite e illecite, ai cronisti per riempire i loro giornali che la gente leggerà avidamente.