Those who write ill, and they who ne’er durst write,Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.

Don’t criticise the person who talks to himself; maybe he’s the best company available.

Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism.

We are all guilty of sin, error, and moments of sheer stupidity; none of us should be casting stones. The occasional arced pebble might be overlooked.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body; it calls attention to the development of an unhealthy state of things. If it is...

Excuses, criticisms, and superstitions are vitamins for haters, but poison for the successful. Rise above!

That’s what artists and athletes do day in and day out. Whether you see them at work or not the process is ongoing. They are working to achieve their heart’s desire to either enlighten or...

I have learned to be kinder to myself, to imagine that I am my own best friend, whispering comforting words in my ear and drowning out the voices of Self-Doubt and Self-Criticism. I have learned...

If it’s painful for you to criticize your friends, you’re safe in doing it; if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue.

If Patti Lupone was born to play Evita then Madonna was born to play Patti Lupone playing Evita.

I welcome reviews from all readers. I take criticism well; but please . . . no comments on my author face!

The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author.

The self-centered man will always expect nothing but praise. He will hope and expect all incoming criticism to be mere self-projection from the critic because when you’re self-centered, self-projection is all you can imagine one...

Our job on earth isn’t to criticize, reject, or judge. Our purpose is to offer a helping hand, compassion, and mercy. We are to do unto others as we hope they would do unto us.

One of the most valuable things one of my art teachers said to me was, ‘Don’t get upset by criticism. Value the fact that at least someone noticed what you did.

Often the crowd does not recognize a leader until he has gone, and then they build a monument for him with the stones they threw at him in life.

The only criticism heard with any frequency of Elton John’s first American album, ‘Elton John,’ was that the production was too grandiose. The melodies were superb, and lyrics frequently very good, and the performances flawless.

its badness is so potent that it seems to undermine the very idea of literature, to expose the whole endeavour of making art out of language as essentially and irredeemably fraudulent

After all, how many of our todays and of our tomorrows do we want to give our yesterdays? It is one thing to be victimized by another. It is quite another to victimize ourselves because...

A leader is always first in line during times of criticism and last in line during times of recognition.

The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination

The mayor deserves criticism — not for what he knew, but for what he did not know. While he focused his attention … on the day-to-day work of governing, he should have focused more on...

A man’s mind is hidden in his writings: criticism brings it to light.

Never Criticize, Condemn or Insult Anybody.Who are we to Judge ?

Pull off your socks and try with your feet.

In a way, I have to have a dictatorship. I can’t be told that I’m wrong. That conflicts with what I was saying earlier about listening. It isn’t to do with receiving criticism and responding...

Politics has always interested me. Despite the bad fallout, the criticism that politicians face, I still think it’s a good thing to get involved.

For the achiever the battle with critics is a slow war of attrition. Let time do the dirty work for you.

There was no sense to life, to the structure of things. D.H. Lawrence had known that. You needed love, but not the kind of love most people used and were used up by. Old D.H....

Perhaps vaguely aware that his movie so completely lacks gravitas, Moore concludes with a sonorous reading of some words from George Orwell. The words are taken from 1984 and consist of a third-person analysis of...

The devil’s happy when the critics run you off.

An insincere critic of a sincere person never wins.

Critique my better work only, because I want to get better from my best, not better from my worst.

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.

This has been done by masters of the trade and Garcia had taken in every stock situation with amazing powers of retention, but he had not put things together right and had used extraordinary discernment...

In the West, of course, God has been dead for some time. What remains is religion as social belief, which is at best a moral code and at worst social etiquette.

I’ve been all over the world and I’ve never seen a statue of a critic.

Short men are happy, for they can pass easily through the door. Tall men are happy, for they can stand erect and pluck oranges with their hands. Again, short men are angry, for they cannot...

To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.

I’ve often been criticised, but never critically wounded

If we wanted to construct a basic philosophical attitude from these scientific utterances of Pauli’s, at first we would be inclined to infer from them an extreme rationalism and a fundamentally skeptical point of view....

This is the same song, different verse from the Democrats running for governor. They have immense amounts of criticism but absolutely no plan to address the challenge.

There is a kind of counter-criticism that seeks to expand the work of art, by connecting it, opening up its meanings, inviting in the possibilities. A great work of criticism can liberate a work of...

At that shameful stage in the development of our criticism, literary abuse would overstep all limits of decorum; literature itself was a totally extraneous matter in critical articles: they were pure invective, a vulgar battle...

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

You should praise, criticize and flirt with people right to their face, only then it will make a difference.

Some judge of authors’ names, not works, and then nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.

When I left her office, I felt like she’d gut-punched me, brushed me off, slapped me back and forth, gave me a cool compress to put on my cheeks, cold-cocked me with a stiff uppercut...

You have to lift a person up before you can really put them in their place.

I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many...