Criticism Quotes


He who throws dirt always loses ground. Source Unknown Criticism 144
In judging others, folks will work overtime for no pay. Charles Edwin Carruthers Criticism 141
Fix the problem, not the blame. Japanese Proverbs Criticism 140
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. Benjamin Disraeli Criticism 137
Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. Samuel Johnson Criticism 127
You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, when you do not rightly understand. Leonardo da Vinci Criticism 121
The whole effort of a sincere man is to erect his personal impressions into laws. Remy De Gourmont Criticism 119
The dread of criticism is the death of genius. William Gilmore Simms Criticism 119
All of us could take a lesson from the weather, it pays no attention to criticism. Source Unknown Criticism 112
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. Benjamin Franklin Criticism 112
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic. Zig Ziglar Criticism 111
Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame. Robert Burns Criticism 109
One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide. Charles Horton Cooley Criticism 108
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful. Winston Churchill Criticism 106
In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me. Edgar Allan Poe Criticism 105
Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are. Henry Fielding Criticism 104
As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation. Hans Selye Criticism 103
Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own. Source Unknown Criticism 101
Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters. Joseph Conrad Criticism 100
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse. Samuel Johnson Criticism 98
When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them. Plato Criticism 97
I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has 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 Criticism 97
The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all. Mark Twain Criticism 97
A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic. James Russell Lowell Criticism 96
Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it. Tacitus Criticism 96
Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred. Charles Buxton Criticism 94
We are suffering from too much sarcasm. Marianne Moore Criticism 93
It is usually best to be generous with praise, but cautious with criticism. Source Unknown Criticism 92
You cannot raise a man up by calling him down. William J.H. Boetcker Criticism 91
Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at. Source Unknown Criticism 91
In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong. John Kenneth Galbraith Criticism 91
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 Benjamin Criticism 90
I find the pain of little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise. Thomas Jefferson Criticism 90
Having a sharp tongue will cut your throat Source Unknown Criticism 90
The covers of this book are too far apart. Ambrose Bierce Criticism 89
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better. Oliver Goldsmith Criticism 89
His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract. William Shakespeare Criticism 88
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants. Walter Winchell Criticism 88
The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them. Joseph Heller Criticism 88
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. Benjamin Disraeli Criticism 87
Nobody kicks a dead dog Dale Carnegie Criticism 87
Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career. Dale Carnegie Criticism 86
Stones and sticks are thrown only at fruit-bearing trees. Saâ€™di Criticism 86
A louse in the locks of literature. Alfred Lord Tennyson Criticism 86
Any jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build it. Sam Rayburn Criticism 85
One ought to examine himself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others. Moli Criticism 85
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs. Christopher Hampton Criticism 84
Criticism and pessimism destroy families, undermine institutions of all kinds, defeat nearly everyone, and spread a shroud of gloom over entire nations. Gordon B. Hinckley Criticism 84
To listen to critics pro or con and take their words to heart is to subcontract your selfesteem to strangers. from Workbook Steven Heighton Criticism 84
Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism. William Gilmore Simms Criticism 83

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