Quotes About Criticism

I had spent many years before I was 31 hearing people tell me, Oh Man, you're so funny, you need to be in television. But that and a quarter won't get you on a bus.

It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye.

I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.

This man called President Bush has a lot to answer for. I don't know if this man is really taking care of America. This government has been shameful.

As there are misanthropists or haters of men, so also are there misologists, or haters of ideas.

Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that revelation, the last judgement of mankind.

Woe to the man who tries to remain objective and to maintain a wide perspective: every one will label him as an enemy.

Your great glory is not to be inferior to what you have been given by nature, and the greatest glory of a woman is to be least talked about by men, whether theyare praising or criticizing you.

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.

Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.

That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.

No man likes to live under the eye of perpetual disapprobation.

Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.

Look what I'm dealing with, man, I'm dealing with fools and trolls.

Niall Quinn is a creep. The man's an idiot, a Mother Theresa.

Ordinary men commonly condemn what is beyond them.

Ridicule dishonors a man more than dishonor does.

There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity.

All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.

The fact that the Kardashians could be more popular than a show like "Mad Men" is disgusting. It's a super disgusting part of our culture, but I still find it funny to make a joke about it.

Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.

Such as are still observing upon others are like those who are always abroad at other men's houses, reforming everything there while their own runs to ruin.

What an occupation! To sit and flay your fellow men and then offer their skins for sale and expect them to buy them.