Criticism Quotes - Page 11

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough.

  Kevin Bacon

  Not Good Enough, Important, Stuff

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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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• In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.

  William Congreve

  Believe, Suffering, Body

  'The Old Bachelor' (1693) act 1, sc. 1

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• The author himself is the best judge of his own performance; none has so deeply meditated on the subject; none is so sincerely interested in the event.

  Edward Gibbon

  Learning, Judging, Events

  Edward Gibbon (1969). “Memoirs of My Life: Edited from the Manuscripts by Georges A. Bonnard”

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• The trite saying that 'honesty is the best policy' has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The seems to be true. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

  Robert E. Lee

  Honesty, Real, Men

  "Memoirs of Robert E. Lee". Book by A. L. Long, 1886.

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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. Somerset Maugham

  Cynical, Doe, Reputation

  W. Somerset Maugham (1930). “Cakes and Ale”

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• Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!

  Golda Meir

  Funny, Humorous, Oil

  Speech at state dinner forWilly Brandt, Jerusalem, 10 June 1973

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• I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.

  Van Morrison

  Years, Very Good, Has Beens

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• One of the things that upset me was some of the criticism leveled at Simon and Garfunkel. I always took exception to it, but actually I agree with a lot of it.

  Paul Simon

  Upset, Exception, Agree

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• Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

  Susan Sontag

  Failure, Lapses, Judgment

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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 show what it means.

  Susan Sontag

  Art, Real, Mean

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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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 imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Reading, Writing

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