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• If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

  Epictetus

  Love, True Friend, Lying

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• Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

  Malcolm Cowley

  Book, Writing, Be Kind

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• You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Art, Literature, Critics

  "The Sayings of Disraeli".

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• Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Adversity

  Maxims and Reflections (1819)

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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

  People, Talent, Poet

  Seven Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton Lecture 1 (1811 - 1812)

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  You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think.

  David Icke

  Being Yourself, Fear, Thinking

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• To test a modest man's modesty do not investigate if he ignores applause, find out if he abides criticism.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Humility, Pride, Men

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• Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.

  Sima Qian

  Hurt, Medicine, Words Of Wisdom

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

  Jean Rostand

  Critics, Fairs, Not Fair

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• 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

  Purpose, Literature, Critics

  Edgar Allan Poe (2017). “The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated Edition): The Raven, Tamerlane, Ulalume, Annabel Lee, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-tale Heart, Berenice, Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Philosophy of Composition, The Poetic Principle, Eureka…”, p.2221, e-artnow

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• He only profits from praise who values criticism.

  Heinrich Heine

  Good Life, Gossip, Envy

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  Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Confidence, Dream, Mistake

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.206, Harvard University Press

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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 Benjamin

  Fashion, Art, Ideas

  Walter Benjamin, Marcus Paul Bullock, Michael William Jennings, Howard Eiland (1996). “Selected Writings: 1913-1926”, p.460, Harvard University Press

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• People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare.

  Jo Brand

  People, Bitterness, Nightmare

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

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Beautiful, Pleasure, Criticize

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• Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.

  Raymond Chandler

  Writing, Cutting, Thinking

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.49, Univ of California Press

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• The important thing to me is that I'm not driven by people's praise and I'm not slowed down by people's criticism. I'm just trying to work at the highest level I can.

  Russell Crowe

  Art, Motivation, People

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• Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Sad, Men, Ideas

  Henry Van Dyke (2015). “Little Rivers”, p.26, eKitap Projesi

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• Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions.

  Margaret Fuller

  Mind, Recluse, Impression

  Margaret Fuller, Joel Myerson (1978). “Margaret Fuller: Essays on American Life and Letters”, p.51, Rowman & Littlefield

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• A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.

  Samuel Johnson

  Horse, Pet, May

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 263, n. 3 (1754)

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• If you have enough people sitting around telling you you're wonderful, then you start believing you're fabulous, then someone tells you you stink and you believe that too!

  Angelina Jolie

  Business, Believe, People

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

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Strength, Lying, Weakness

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Kavanagh (Annotated Edition)”, p.110, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

  Bertrand Russell

  Atheist, People, Change Is Good

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.76, Lulu Press, Inc

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• 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

  Sorry, Apology, Men

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.128, Courier Corporation

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