Quotes About Criticism

You can't win with some people. If you're not in government, you're criticised for being not serious. If you are in government, you're criticised for wanting power. That's the Labour party's line of attack, and it's a bit ridiculous.

He (Bugliosi) took bits and pieces out of context and presented my views and opinions in a much distorted and unrecognizable fashion." -- Dr. Cyril Wecht, forensic pathologist and former president of both the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and the American College of Legal Medicine

Hollywood is a bitchy town.

Fortunately for me, I know well enough what I want, and am basically utterly indifferent to the criticism that I work to hurriedly. In answer to that, I have done some things even more hurriedly theses last few days.

So now, when anyone says that such and such is done too quickly, you can reply that they have looked at it too quickly.

But what would Monsieur Tersteeg say about this picture when he said before a Sisley - Sisley, the most discreet and gentle of the impressionists - "I can't help thinking that the artist who painted that was a little tipsy." If he saw my picture, he would say that it was delirium tremens in full swing.

Seems that folks who try to hide it the most end up judging the most. Guess they figure if they judge other people's garbage it makes their own not quite so dirty.

A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.

Whatever we do, someone is going to take the time to say it's shit.

Il faut être crétin, ou simplement malhonnête, pour trouver une oppression insupportable et juger l'autre pleine de poésie.

Los motivos de crítica o de rechazo de la fe se presentan siempre, obviamente, como algo objetivo, cuando -para quien conoce los intríngulis del corazón humano- son demasiado a menudo el grito ansioso de la subjetividad de personas que sufren.

The departments are shit; decrees are shit.

when there is no materialist criticism of political institutions, and when the class character of the modern state is not understood, it is only one step from political radicalism to political opportunism.

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

Better is the enemy of good.

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.

when you find out who your not allowed to criticize, then you will realize who is in control".

Lo único sensato por parte de un crítico es permanecer en silencio frente a las obras que considera francamente malas, mientras defiende vigorosamente las que cree buenas, sobre todo si estas son ignoradas o menospreciadas por el público.

Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?

People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched,- criticism of writers by readers, of government by those governed, of leaders by those led, - this is the soul of democracy and the safeguard of modern society

Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say