Quotes About Criticism

Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.

You will never please everybody. Some men will say you have gone too far. Other men will say you haven't gone far enough. I just compromise and say I won't please anybody.

Praise is like ambergrease: a little whiff of it, and by snatches, is very agreeable; but when a man holds a whole lump of it to your nose, it is a stink, and strikes you down.

Poe wrote like a drunkard and a man who is not accustomed to pay his debts.

Kant is the most evil man in mankind's history.

Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism.

Who judges best of a Man, his Enemies or himself?

We have almost reached the point where praise of rationality is held to mark a man as an old fogey regrettably surviving from a bygone age.

There should be a dash of the amateur in criticism. For the amateur is a man of enthusiasm who has not settled down and is not habit bound.

Half the pictures directed by men of reputation fail.

If you hear a man rail at the Bible, you can usually conclude that he never reads it.

Bernie Sanders is a crazy man.

the most censorious are generally the least judicious; who, having nothing to recommend themselves, will be finding fault with others. No man envies the merit of another, that has any of his own.

We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.

Men. One minute they have their tongues down your throat and the next they're forbidding you from meeting your own father and criticizing your fashion choices.

Every man's censure is first moulded in his own nature.

The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men's genius.

The man who says, 'my country right or wrong' is like the man who says, 'my mother drunk or sober'

Of course it must, and our scientific men must be criticized boldly. They will not feel comfortable when you and I are through with them.

Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about. If it is good to say or do something, then it is even better to be criticized for having said or done it.

To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man.

A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.

I think a lot of people compare female writers or female comedians to each other in a way that men are not. Male comedy writers are not scrutinized.

[Barack Obama] is a man who is causing us and will cause us a great deal of harm constitutionally and personally.