Quotes About Criticism

I would like to have you quote me, Erich von Stroheim, as having said on this day of this month of this year this one thing: you Americans are living on baby food.

The junk food of political journalism...all reshuffle stories are crap.

Dad likes my food, but he probably thinks it's too busy. He is a wonderful cook but only uses three ingredients. My mum rips out my articles and makes my recipes.

Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought.

Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose

The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy.

The test of democracy is freedom of criticism.

The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it.

Actually, I am a coward. I say only what is safe to say, and I criticise only what is permissable to criticise.

It is impossible to be truly artistic without the risk of offending someone somewhere.

What have the Germans gained by their boasted freedom of the press, except the liberty of abusing each other as they like?

It's freedom of speech, not freedom from consequences and/or ridicule.

Anyone who criticizes you cares about your friendship. Anyone who makes light of your faults cares nothing about you.

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.

Political criticism is our enemies' best friend.

Flea brain, got a hole in her head. If she wasn't good looking, she'd be better off dead.

There was a poor poet named Clough, Whom his friends all united to puff, But the public, though dull, Had not such a skull As belonged to believers in Clough.

Haters keep on hating, cause somebody's gotta do it.

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, I wanna grow up and be a critic.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many people going about saying, "The trouble with this country is...."

Haters...are all failures. It's 100% across the board. No one who is truly brilliant at anything is a hater.

Nickelback walks into a bar...there's no punchline because ruining music isn't funny.

Normally, I try not to pay attention to my haters, but this time I'd like to talk about it, because my haters are my motivators.

The hateful reviews are very funny. And sometimes you can enjoy a hateful review much more than a good review.