Quotes About Criticism

Let the adverse breath of criticism be to you only what the blast of the storm wind is to the eagle,—a force against him that lifts him higher.

Everybody cursed the Bolsheviks but nobody was prepared to do anything about them.

No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.

So I don't even get a chance to learn before I'm being judged.

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can't get into it do that.

Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.

Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities

If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.

He who flatters a man is his enemy. he who tells him of his faults is his maker.

Don't complain about the snow on your neighbour's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

They're a pack of dimpled fuckwits and you can tell them I said so.

If you sincerely want to hear all about what is wrong with you and what you ought to do to rectify it all you need to do is let them inlaws on the place. You'll get a complete rundown on the subject and I guarantee it. She

There is a sort of busy worm, That will the fairest book deform. Their tasteless tooth will tear and taint The poet, patriot, sage or saint, Nor sparing wit nor learning. Now, if you'd know the reason why, The best of reasons I'll supply: 'Tis bread to the poor vermin. J. Doraston, quoted by W. Blades

He's a sucking chest wound of a human being.

Every time I hear someone saying that money is bullshit, I check to see how much money they have.

don't blame myself for the broad general failures for which I am held responsible by my detractors. To others, I am a symbol; to myself, I have only ever been me.

The talk went on like a rattle of small artillery, always slightly sententious, with a sententiousness that was only emphasised by the continual crackling of a witticism, the continual spatter of verbal jest, designed to give a tone of flippancy to a stream of conversation that was all critical and general, a canal of conversation rather than a stream.

Curse the blasted, jelly-boned swines, the slimy, the belly-wriggling invertebrates, the miserable soddingrotters, the flaming sods, the sniveling, dribbling, dithering, palsied, pulse-less lot that make up England today. They've got white of egg in their veins, and their spunk is that watery it's a marvel they can breed.

I really do not want to be forced into all this criticism and analysis of life. I really do want to see things in their entirety, with their beauty left to them, and their wholeness, their natural holiness.Don't you feel it, don't you feel you can't be tortured into any more knowledge?

he had read in the newspaper satirical remarks about initial-carvers, who could find no other road to immortality.

Since that time the boy used to look at the man every time he came through, with the same curious criticism, glancing away before he met the smith's eye. It made Dawes furious. They hated each other in silence.