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

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  Henry James

  AuthorAmerican-British1843 · 19th century

  4.1 · 42 votes · 74 reads

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• On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.5 · 23 votes · 37 reads

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• People at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg

  BusinessmanAmerican1984 · 20th century

  3.6 · 12 votes · 80 reads

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• People who ask for your criticism want only praise.

  

  W. H. Auden

  PoetEnglish1907 · 20th century

  3.4 · 26 votes · 174 reads

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• Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.

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  John Keats

  PoetBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.4 · 19 votes · 76 reads

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• Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible o

  

  Joseph Joubert

  French1754 · 18th century

  3.1 · 51 votes · 10 reads

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• 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

  NovelistBritish1903 · 20th century

  4.1 · 9 votes · 99 reads

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• Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

  

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  PoetBritish1772 · 18th century

  3.9 · 16 votes · 33 reads

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• Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.

  

  Pearl S. Buck

  NovelistAmerican1892 · 19th century

  4.8 · 57 votes · 84 reads

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• Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  3.6 · 55 votes · 136 reads

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• Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.7 · 28 votes · 33 reads

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• Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.

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  Jean Rostand

  PhilosopherFrench1894 · 19th century

  3.5 · 14 votes · 38 reads

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• Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.6 · 59 votes · 49 reads

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• The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to sh

  

  Stendhal

  NovelistFrench1783 · 18th century

  4.9 · 53 votes · 85 reads

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• The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion.

  

  Walter Bagehot

  EconomistBritish1826 · 19th century

  3.4 · 15 votes · 191 reads

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• The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.

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  William Cowper

  PoetBritish1731 · 18th century

  3.2 · 24 votes · 153 reads

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• The best criticism doesn't trap an employee or child in a dead end. It gives them an escape route.

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  Anonymous

  3.3 · 26 votes · 131 reads

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• The covers of this book are too far apart.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  4.8 · 30 votes · 13 reads

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• The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.3 · 13 votes · 2 reads

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• The critical opinions of a Writershould always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid.

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  W. C. Fields

  ComedianAmerican1880 · 19th century

  3.2 · 52 votes · 36 reads

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• The good critic is he who relates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.

  

  Anatole France

  WriterFrench1844 · 19th century

  3.3 · 40 votes · 36 reads

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• The person of analytic or critical intellect finds something ridiculous in everything. The person of synthetic or constructive intellect, in almost nothing.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.5 · 25 votes · 33 reads

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• The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.

  

  Jean de la Bruyère

  French1645 · 17th century

  3.1 · 12 votes · 56 reads

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• The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.4 · 9 votes · 183 reads

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

  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  PoetAmerican1807 · 19th century

  3.3 · 14 votes · 168 reads

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• The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.5 · 24 votes · 169 reads

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• Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

  

  Joseph Addison

  PoetEnglish1672 · 17th century

  4.3 · 33 votes · 166 reads

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• There is one way to handle the ignorant and malicious critic. Ignore him.

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  Anonymous

  3.1 · 11 votes · 196 reads

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• They condemn what they do not understand.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.3 · 56 votes · 32 reads

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• This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

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  Dorothy Parker

  WriterAmerican1893 · 19th century

  4.0 · 43 votes · 109 reads

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• Those who can - do. Those who can't - criticize.

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  Anonymous

  4.7 · 28 votes · 9 reads

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• Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.

  

  Chinese proverb

  Chinese

  3.8 · 34 votes · 107 reads

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• To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

  

  Elbert Hubbard

  AuthorAmerican1856 · 19th century

  4.9 · 56 votes · 194 reads

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• To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons.

  

  Charles Baudelaire

  PoetFrench1821 · 19th century

  3.8 · 59 votes · 49 reads

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• 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.

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  Henry James

  AuthorAmerican-British1843 · 19th century

  4.4 · 27 votes · 86 reads

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• Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.

  

  John Steinbeck

  WriterAmerican1902 · 20th century

  4.7 · 63 votes · 68 reads

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• We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  3.5 · 37 votes · 102 reads

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• We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of critici

  

  Susan Sontag

  AuthorAmerican1933 · 20th century

  3.2 · 11 votes · 19 reads

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• 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

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  3.6 · 34 votes · 163 reads

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• What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

  

  Jean Cocteau

  AuthorFrench1889 · 19th century

  4.0 · 50 votes · 38 reads

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• 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

  JournalistAmerican1875 · 19th century

  3.9 · 62 votes · 41 reads

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• When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.4 · 6 votes · 11 reads

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• When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don't want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren't. There are pranks, IMs.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg

  BusinessmanAmerican1984 · 20th century

  4.3 · 48 votes · 182 reads

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• Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.

  

  Milan Kundera

  WriterCzech1929 · 20th century

  4.7 · 55 votes · 137 reads

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• Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale

  AuthorAmerican1898 · 19th century

  4.4 · 23 votes · 73 reads

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• Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

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  John Updike

  WriterAmerican1932 · 20th century

  4.8 · 34 votes · 148 reads

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• You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

  

  W. H. Auden

  PoetEnglish1907 · 20th century

  3.7 · 13 votes · 31 reads

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