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  Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

  George Eliot

  Motivational, Spiritual, Dog

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.226, 谷月社

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• Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Sympathy, Firsts, Conditions

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• There is a certain justice in criticism.

  Stephen Spender

  Justice, Certain

  Stephen Spencer's lecture at Brooklyn College, as quoted in "The New York Times", November 20, 1984.

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• Most art is just surface noise.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Noise, Surface

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• Worship the spirit of criticism.

  Louis Pasteur

  Spirit, Worship

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• Don't criticize what you can't understand.

  Bob Dylan

  Education, Song, Criticize

  The Times They Are A-Changing (1964 song)

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• On the way up here to the podium, a gentleman came up to me and said, "Governor, you are as good a politician as you were an actor." What a cheap shot.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Funny, Gentleman, Actors

  "Schwarzenegger: No Country More Welcoming Than the USA". Address to the Republican National Convention, edition.cnn.com. September 01, 2004.

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  Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If criticism had any power to harm, the skunk would be extinct by now.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Humor, Would Be

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• Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.

  Antisthenes

  Business, Powerful, Mistake

  "Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers (§ 12)". Book by Diogenes Laertius, circa 200 AD.

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• Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

  John Steinbeck

  Writing, Play, Giving

  "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Fourth Series". Book edited by George Plimpton. Chapter "On Critics", 1977.

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• I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.

  Truman Capote

  Careers, Gossip, Long

  Quoted in David Frost The Americans (1970),'When Does A Writer Become A Star'.

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• Critical remarks are only made by people who love you.

  Federico Mayor Zaragoza

  Love You, People, Made

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• Before you criticize a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticize him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Music, Humor

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• Criticism of others is thus an oblique form of self-commendation. We think we make the picture hang straight on our wall by telling our neighbors that all his pictures are crooked.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Wall, Thinking, Self

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• The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Pleasure, Fine Things, Criticize

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• Blame is safer than praise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Blame, Praise, Critics

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2014). “The Portable Emerson”, p.129, Penguin

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• If you're going to get into social criticism with absurdity and satire, you can't be politically correct when you do that.

  John Cusack

  Satire, Social, Absurdity

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• My opinions and principles are subjects of just criticism.

  Victoria Woodhull

  Principles, Opinion, Subjects

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• I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.

  Robert W. Service

  France, Intense, Neighbor

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• A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.

  Wilson Mizner

  Drama, Theatre, Surprise

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Government, Feet, Soldier

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• Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Hard Work, Men, Hands

  "Of Books". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

  James Russell Lowell

  Wise, Wisdom, Firsts

  "Literary Essays, vol. III". Book by James Russell Lowell, 1870-1890.

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• I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.

  Plautus

  Compliment, Sincere, Ifs

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