Quotes About Criticism

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

In the main, there are two sorts of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.

What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses.

The haters always scream the loudest.

I don't care what anybody says, I think that George Bush is absolutely the right president to oversea the end of the world.

The new moron in town is Chad Ford of ESPN.com.

I don't like people whose job it isn't to be funny, to tell me what is and isn't funny.

I have to say, the other day I was reading some negative comments, and I was thinking they were really funny. So I guess they don't anymore.

You know, it's funny, no matter what I do - I mean, you're always going to have negatives and positives.

The insane little dwarf, Bush.

I wish his music came out of the closet and admit that it sucks.

I don't like John Terry and I never have. He's got funny eyes and he's a cry baby. He's also a Cockney.

I like idolator.com a lot. Every once in a while they shred me on there, but it's usually pretty funny.

It's easy to be negatively funny about personalities in the media. It's just kind of a cheap laugh.

It's not terrible, I guess, but if Ricky Gervais was half as talented as me, maybe the show would actually be funny once in a while.

I've often been criticised, but never critically wounded

The main proof that you actually do not exist is that nobody ever criticizes you.

Poor is the man whose future depends on the opinions and permission of others. Remember this, if you are afraid of criticism, you will die doing nothing!

"Romanticizing the past" is a familiar accusation, made mostly by people who think it is more grown-up to romanticize the future.

I picture several reviewers of my own books as passing a long future lodged between Brutus and Judas in the jaws of Satan.