Quotes About Criticism

I haven't any right to criticise books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticise Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

...but Edward Young was a querulous old fashioned dotard...

Happiness is lost by criticising it; sorrow by accepting it.

Mrs. Silverstein is a dub, and a softy, and a knocker," he said good-humoredly.  "What's she know about such things, anyway?  I tell you it is good, and healthy, too,"—this last as an afterthought. 

Zaten bütün âhlakç?lar kaç?k damgas? yemiÅŸtir, diyerek at?ld?. Daha doÄŸrusu, dönemlerinin s?radan insanlar? taraf?ndan kaç?k diye nitelendirilmiÅŸlerdir.

They will blame me. That is the risk poets take when we exaggerate for the sake of effect, which is what we do. And believe me, there are many who agree with the sentiment.

There is no reason why any sane person should read Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind. It is one of the worst books ever written by an American, shoddy, meretricious and without any redeeming social value.

I get nonstop hate mail. I got one today saying I was "too Jewish," whatever that means. And over the weekend I got one from a Jewish guy saying I was a disgrace to Jews. So I don't win either way.

One time someone wrote to us: "I'm applying all of the things you suggest, and I am coming up with a ton of ideas to improve my life. The only problem is, when I go out drinking with my friends on Friday night, they all laugh at the ideas. What should I do?" We wrote back: "Simple solution: stay home on Friday night.

I've seen it in action repeatedly: no matter who you are, no matter what you do, no matter who your audience is: 30 percent will love it, 30 percent will hate it, and 30 percent won't care. Stick with the people who love you and don't spend a single second on the rest. Life will be better that way.

In life, you will always have a third of people who love you, a third who hate you and a third who couldn't care less. - From an interview with Gabrielle Reese

If someone wrote Beethoven's Fifth Symphony right now it would be laughed at.

I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. I

I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. I think all theories are suspect, that the finest principles may have to be modified, or may even be pulverized by the demands of life, and that one must find, therefore, one's own moral center and move through the world hoping that this center will guide one aright.

The police are very sensitive about being accused of violating a suspect's constitutional rights – they are, indeed, as sensitive to any and all criticism as aging beauty queens – and would never have arrested Tony in the way that they did if they had not been certain that his accusation could never be heard.

He who has provoked the lash of wit cannot complain that he smarts from it.

You must be patient before you criticize.

What nonsense it all is! Catholic and Protestant and Calvinist and Lutherist and every other shitist.

The Blessed Jesus said, 'First cast the mote out of your own eye before you cast the beam out of mine.

It's unseemly to criticize without knowledge.

The journalist and critic I. F. Stone would call the state of mind that permitted the Pearl Harbor attack "sheer stodgy unimaginative bureaucratic complacency.

Criticism of basic concepts in the Imperial Navy would have impugned the top-level admirals, and brought instant dismissal of the critic," Hara wrote.

One of the misfortunes of a nation, is to hear little besides its own praises.