Quotes About Criticism

Medical journals like The Lancet not only attacked specific fashions, such as corsets or tight-lacing, but also criticized the sex which worships the idol of fashion. Indeed, virtually, any criticism of Fashion rapidly moved into a diatribe on women's vanity and stupidity. Tight-lacing was so ill-defined and the practice apparently so ubiquitous that it seemed to prove all women's mental - and moral - inferiority. Tight-lacing came to stand for everything that was wrong about women.

Ignorance of ourselves is another reason for forgiving others. Unfortunately it is ourselves we know least; our neighbor's sins, weaknesses, and failures we know a thousand times better than our own. Criticism of others may be bad, but it is want of self-criticism which is worse.

You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear.

Men and deeds were brought to judgment there. They jeered at the age, which released them from the necessity of understanding it.

She found him insipid, silly, stupid, useless, conceited, offensive, impertinent—and extremely ugly. The

We are equally far removed from the hosanna of Joseph de Maistre, who wound up by anointing the executioner, and from the sneer of Voltaire, who even goes so far as to ridicule the cross.

A state that suppresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law.

Der Satiriker ist ein gekränkter Idealist: er will die Welt gut haben, sie ist schlecht, und nun rennt er gegen das Schlechte hin.

They praise these tiny indie bands, but if a band finally gets mainstream success, the same people who praised them attack them for 'selling out.' People often play at being nonconformists to mask their own feelings of not fitting in.

Discount all praise by nine-tenths, since a king draws flatterers as offal does flies.

Everyone has this perception that the bloggers, they say horrible things about you and they hide behind their computers where you can't see them.

As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults.

Carnsarn ye for a pair of busted-down, walleyed, spavined ignorantipedes! Gettin' so a man can't even git ten winks on his own chuck wagon without you buzzard baits clownin' up!

The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age.

there are biddies, always biddies, everywhere in this world, who are more concerned with the morals of others than they are with their own. A

Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.

The most accomplished literary work would be reduced to nothing by carping criticism, if the author would listen to all critics and allow every one to erase the passage which pleases him the least.

The pleasure of criticism takes away from us the pleasure of being deeply moved by very fine things.

He who only writes to suit the taste of the age, considers himself more than his writings. We should always aim at perfection, and then posterity will do us that justice which sometimes our contemporaries refuse us.

If we had no faults ourselves, we should not take such pleasure in observing those of others.

Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment.

Everyone complains of his memory, none of his judgment.

Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others.

Ordinary men commonly condemn what is beyond them.