Quotes About Criticism

And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.

He who does not like you will defame you in jest.

Now, the country is in a terrible state, and you've blamed it on a number of things: Unemployment rate, the value of the pound and all that... wrll, it's because the national anthem is boring.

Why was the judgement of the disapproving so valuable? Who said that their good opinions tended to be any more rational than those of generally pleasant people?

I'll watch a Keanu Reeves movie and I'll go, 'Wow, he's really not a very good actor!'

"God save our gracious Queen": Why would we invoke a non-specific deity to bail out these unelected spongers?

Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog: Nobody really enjoys it, and the frog generally dies as a result.

He laid into me with the same gusto as a right-wing political pundit on the O'Reilly Factor defending President's Bush right to vacation six days out of the week.

We censure others but as they disagree from that humor which we fancy laudable in ourselves, and commend others but for that wherein they seem to quadrate and consent with us.

A celebrity farts, and everyone endures, but the unpopular will be thrased to death.

Eventually, I manage to cheer Mum up by allowing her to go through my wardrobe and criticize all my clothes...

Obama's plan for "change": Let's do everything Bush did, only with more suck! Because it just didn't suck badly enough the first time!

If you have nothing good to say about someone, write a book about them. - Carmen Fox, Life Motto

Politics is the only art whose artists regularly disown their masterpieces.

When a book of mine comes out, I instantly go hunting the net, not for praise, but for criticism, because that's how you learn, from people who don't have to be polite to you.

Negativity takes no imagination. It's far easier to criticize someone's decisions after they make them than to propose better ones beforehand.

It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor in the imagination.

Shakespeare is a drunken savage with some imagination whose plays please only in London and Canada.

Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision.

Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.

Not everything you hear about yourself can be considered good publicity. And if you have delicate sensibilities, the currycomb of public imagination frequently rubs your vanities the wrong way.

What is new about Barthes's posthumous reputation is the view of him as a writer whose books of criticism and personal musings must be admired as serious and beautiful works of the imagination.

Without the freedom to criticize, there is no true praise.

Many pastors criticize me for taking the Gospel so seriously. But do they really think that on Judgment Day, Christ will chastise me, saying, 'Leonard, you took Me too seriously'?