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Quotes About Criticism

I am anti-Bush. A lot of what he stands for is the antithesis of what I stand for.
~ Jonathan Shapiro
We need a direct repudiation of Barack Obama and everything for which he stands.
~ Monica Crowley
Anyone leaving the Congress' camp and joining - or even indirectly praising - the BJP-led NDA coalition immediately stands the risk of losing this Congress-issued certificate of secularism. It is a travesty!
~ Piyush Goyal
The man who invented the red carpet needed his head examined.
~ Prince Philip
If you don't live by the praise of men you won't die by their criticism.
~ Bill Johnson
Those base men who speak of the secret faults of others destroy themselves like serpents that stray onto anthills.
~ Chanakya
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
~ Ezra Pound
It's strange how men feel they have the right to criticize a woman's appearance to her face.
~ Marilyn French
Why kick the man downstream who can't put the parts together because the parts really weren't designed properly?
~ Philip Caldwell
An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud.
~ Aristophanes
It is not easy to find perfect men in whom there is nothing to criticize.
~ Vincent de Paul
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
~ Voltaire
There is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who explain.
~ G. H. Hardy
The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.
~ A. E. Housman
For every man there is something in the vocabulary that would stick to him like a second skin. His enemies have only to find it.
~ Ambrose Bierce
A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
~ Carolyn Wells
The censure of a dog is something no man can stand.
~ Christopher Morley
To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.
~ Franz Grillparzer
He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men.
~ Honore de Balzac
Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is so far doing a public service. We should be grateful to him for attacking most unsparingly our most cherished opinions.
~ John Stuart Mill
Men always marry younger girls, but sometimes when a women who's very mature marries a younger man, she's criticized. It needs to be corrected.
~ Sophia Loren
How quickly was every bad thing discovered to be the fault of the previous administration (an evil set of men who wedded general stupidity to wickedness of purpose).
~ Susanna Clarke
We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age.
~ L. Ron Hubbard