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Quotes About Criticism

I'm not loved by GLAAD or by HRC. I'm not going to be a spokesman for those groups, which are based on fundraising.
~ Zoey Tur
Long experience has told me that to be criticized is not always to be wrong.
~ Anthony Eden
Impersonal criticism?is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful.
~ George Jean Nathan
Before criticizing your wife's faults remember that they may have prevented her from getting a better husband.
~ Anonymous
Obama and his allies are promoting a medical system that is the third leading cause of death in America. It's that stark and it's that simple.
~ Jon Rappoport
Don't accept the applause of men, and you won't be destroyed by their criticism.
~ Reinhard Bonnke
The Bible warns us clearly that we must not attack men of God no matter how sinful they may have become or wicked in our eyes.
~ Benny Hinn
Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.
~ Oliver Goldsmith
No one ever accepts criticism so cheerfully. Neither the man who utters it nor the man who invites it really means it.
~ R.K. Narayan
If the majority doesn't laugh at you, beware that you must be saying something wrong. When the majority thinks you are a fool, only then is there some possibility of you being a wise man.
~ Laozi
A country where a man is afraid to criticise another one is no socialist country.
~ Enver Hoxha
Arianna Huffington is unattractive both inside and out. I fully understand why her former husband left her for a man - he made a good decision.
~ Donald Trump
Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.
~ Joseph Addison
There was never an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.
~ Golda Meir
Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
~ Henry Steele Commager
Men do not so much hate an evil-doer, or evil itself, as they hate the man who calls evil by its real name.
~ Giacomo Leopardi
I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?
~ George Bernard Shaw
Oh my brethren, Bold hearted men are always called mean-spirited by cowards!
~ Charles Spurgeon
To be turned from one's course by men's opinions, by blame, and by misrepresentation shows a man unfit to hold an office.
~ Fabius Maximus
To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.
~ Seneca the Younger
The unhappy man, who once has trail'd a pen, Lives not to please himself, but other men; Is always drudging, wastes his life and blood, Yet only eats and drinks what you think good.
~ John Dryden
I seem to have no dress sense at all. I'm always being listed in New York among one of the ten worst dressed men of the year. Someone once described me as "looking like an unmade bed." He was right!
~ Orson Welles