Criticism Quotes - Page 11

• The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.

  A. E. Housman

  Men, Average, Conservative

  Marcus Manilius, A. E. Housman (2011). “Astronomicon”, p.43, Cambridge University Press

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• I am an American. I love my country and have great hopes for it. It is for this reason that I speak candidly and sometimes critically about it. I have benefited greatly from the freedom that exists in my country and for this I am eternally grateful.

  Johnny Depp

  Country, Freedom, Grateful

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• You'll be "damned if you do, and damned if you don't."

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Criticize, Critics, Ifs

  "How to Stop Worrying and Start Living". Book by Dale Carnegie, 1948.

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• I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.

  Victor Hugo

  Critics, Verses

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• Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.

  Josef Skvorecky

  Writing, Sea, Hygiene

  Josef Škvorecký (1985). “The Engineer of Human Souls”, Pocket Books

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• If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.

  Ellen Swallow Richards

  Running, Ducks, Water

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• Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Merit

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 149-52, Literary Character of Men of Genius, chapter VI, 1922.

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• Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring, a south wind, not an east wind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wind, Knives, Roots

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1959). “Emerson: A Modern Anthology”

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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.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Attitude, Sick, People

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• To many people, dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.

  John Mason Brown

  Tattoo, People, Soap Bubbles

  John Mason Brown (1940). “Broadway in review”

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• Time and time again I was told that I would never make the film on time and never make it on budget. That kind of criticism tends to turn me into a great big motor of efficiency.

  Richard E. Grant

  Kind, Film, Efficiency

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• Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.

  Halle Berry

  Scrutiny, Subjects

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• The covers of this book are too far apart.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.3723, Delphi Classics

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

  Henry James

  People, Judging, Liberty

  Henry James (2015). “The Portrait of a Lady”, p.255, Xist Publishing

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• Grant me prudently to avoid him that flatters me, and to endure patiently him that contradicts me.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Flattery, Praise, Endure

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• Most people have been brainwashed into believing that their job is to copyedit the world, not to design it.

  Seth Godin

  Jobs, Believe, People

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• Criticism is the forerunner of divorce, the cultivator of rebellion, sometimes an agent that leads to failure.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Divorce, Agents, Sometimes

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• 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.

  Edward Dahlberg

  People, Imagination, Tornadoes

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, U of Minnesota Press

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• Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.

  Tryon Edwards

  Self, Desert, Praise

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.173, Ravenio Books

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• Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present.

  John Berger

  Mean, Cutting, Past

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• Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.

  Allen Tate

  Experience, May, Coherence

  Allen Tate (1999). “Essays of Four Decades”, Isi Books

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• People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

  Anne Tyler

  Good Luck, People, Luck

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• The artist must scorn all judgment that is not based on an intelligent observation of character. He must beware of the literary spirit which so often causes a painting to deviate from its true path - the concrete study of nature - to lose itself all too long in intangible speculations.

  Paul Cezanne

  Character, Intelligent, Artist

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• Harshness to me is giving somebody false hopes and not following through. That's harsh. Telling some guy or some girl who've got zero talent that they have zero talent actually is a kindness.

  Simon Cowell

  Girl, Zero, Kindness

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• The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Reading, Writing

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