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God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature. They won't even whore. They're all virtuous and sterile. And how well meaning and high minded. But they're all camp fo

» Ernest Hemingway (1898-1961) American Writer[Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954]

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a Writerhas to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.

» Ezra Pound (1885-1972) American poet, critic and intellectual

I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don't think it's good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You're not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I'm

» George W. Bush (1946-?) American Politician

Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.

» German proverb (-)

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

» Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American naturalist, poet and philosopher, abolitionist

In reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them men of much greater profundity than they really are.

» Henry Fielding (1707-1754) English novelist and dramatist

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.

» Henry James (1843-1916) American author [American:1843-1915, British:1915-1916]

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

» Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) American journalist, essayist, satirist and social critic

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

» Henry Miller (1891-1980) American author

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

» Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) American poet and educator

Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.

» Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) American poet and educator

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

» Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) American politician, social reformer

Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

» Erasmus of Rotterdam (1466-1536) Dutch humanist and theologian

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.

» George Orwell (1903-1950) British novelist, essayist, and critic [George Orwell is his pen name]

When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.

» Helen Rowland (1875-1950) American journalist and humorist

Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!

» Henry James (1843-1916) American author [American:1843-1915, British:1915-1916]

It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.

» Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) American journalist, essayist, satirist and social critic

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

» Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) American poet and educator

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