Quotes About Criticism

With faint praises one another damn.

When a proud man hears another praised, he feels himself injured.

If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of him.

The public be damned.

When I decided to go into politics I weighed the cost: I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when the virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.

When I did well, I heard it never; When I did ill, I heard it ever.

Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.

When three people call you an ass, put on a bridle.

The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.

It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.

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

One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.

Posterity will say as usual: "In the past things were better, the present is worse than the past."

You always get negative reactions. If you worry about that, you would never do anything.

I suppose some editors are failed writers - but so are most writers.

Footnotes, the little dogs yapping at the heels of the text.

You praise the firm restraint with which they write - I'm with you, there, of course: They use the snaffle and the curb all right, But where's the bloody horse?

A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it.

When a ham actor told George Jessel "I'm a sensation at the Roxy. Last night I had the audience glued to their seats," Jessel snapped, "Wonderful! How clever of you to think of it."

Men who do not work themselves and who undertake nothing in their lives easily loose patience and fall into error when judging the work of others.

I knew a man who succeeded in finding an evil word for everything he didn't have and everything he didn't understand.

Judgment is harsh and mean and meant to hurt, as if the pain of what we do or say will slap others into our way of believing.

JEALOUSY, AND RIDICULE.

the form of gossip, betrayal, and unwarranted judgment. Women are also more prone than men to compare themselves to one another.