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Transforms old print To zigzag manuscript, and cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts.
— William Cowper
Literary critics make natural detectives.
— A.S. Byatt
All critics should be assassinated.
— Man Ray
Most of my critics don't even listen to me; they are clueless. They just go to Web sites that report what I say out of context.
— Rush Limbaugh
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Critics are not creators. They rarely write great novels, invent new technologies, or come up with a great business idea.
— Jacqueline Leo
Wealthy people attract critics like wealthy ships attract pirates.
— Orrin Woodward
The devil's happy when the critics run you off.
— Criss Jami
under the live oaks on the square. Attentive critics of courthouse business, Atticus said
— Harper Lee
If I miss one day of practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If I miss three days, the audience notices it.
— Ignacy Jan Paderewski
'You're stupid,' is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.
— P. J. O'Rourke
The most exciting periods of literature have always been those when the critics were great.
— Doris Lessing
Cultivate everything the critics hated in your first work - that's what makes you unique.
— Jean Cocteau
Women critics are amazons in climax.
— Faina Ranevskaya
The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
To go after what you want in life, you have to silence the critics, starting with the biggest one: you.
— Regina Brett
Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
— Arthur Conan Doyle
How could you think of such awful things? liberal critics always ask. How else could I possibly amuse myself? I always wonder.
— John Waters
If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.
— Edith Sitwell
Asking a working writer what he feels about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs.
— John Osborne
The critics love to get out their knives and dine on Coverdale. But the worse the criticism gets, the more successful I become.
— David Coverdale
As the 'critic of color,' I'm frequently asked to review Indian and Pakistani writers.
— Parul Sehgal
We don't stoop to the level of our worst critics, no matter how much we may find them to be annoying.
— Jimmy Wales
All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
— Gregory Nunn
Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Children are the most honest critics. They will say 'You're funny', but also 'You're pathetic - go away.'
— Dylan Moran
When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines.
— Mason Cooley
It is the heart that makes the critic, not the nose.
— Max Muller
Listen to the praises about you in silence; listen to the critics about you even in more silence!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
Critics who attack my wife bug me. It makes me want to pay 'em a visit so I could give 'em a good punch in the nose.
— Tim McGraw
Historians and critics too often overlook the state of mind of the commanders in judging a military or naval action.
— Tameichi Hara
Critics or musicians who attack me are jealous of my success and the fact that I make people feel so happy.
— Andre Rieu
When I get passionate or worked up about an issue, I say things that the Conservatives and opponents and critics like to pounce on.
— Justin Trudeau
A work of art is an act of love. Critics are crab lice.
— David Gerrold
If the caterpillar listened to his critics, he would never become a butterfly.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
I think critics are very useful. But I think that they, in a way, betray their position when they stop people looking for themselves.
— Antony Gormley
If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.
— Natalie Goldberg
Youth need less critics and more models.
— Thomas S. Monson
He who frowns when they say that he sucks shouldn't smile when they say that he rocks.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can't do it themselves!
— Harry Cohn
When the critics come around it's always too late.
— Sidney Nolan
I have a folder where I keep all the articles the critics have written about me. It makes me feel good.
— Norman Wisdom
Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.
— Nat King Cole
It's a disease of critics that once they've labeled someone, it's very hard to change their perspective. It's laziness.
— Michael Haneke
You have to have courage to stand up to your critics.
— Enzo Ferrari
Greatness occurs when your children love you, when your critics respect you and when you have peace of mind.
— Quincy Jones
If I read or listened to critics of our music, I'd have been discouraged a long time ago.
— Graham Nash
The critics don't build great cities
— Federico Pena
For the achiever the battle with critics is a slow war of attrition. Let time do the dirty work for you.
— Bryant McGill
Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
— Alexander Pope
A lot of times, mainstream critics are much tougher on small, independent movies because they can be.
— John C. Reilly
Don't blow out someone's candle or you'll both end up in the dark.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
You can't be a critic by simply being a griper. One has also to search out the examples of good work.
— Wendell Berry
My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.
— Irwin Shaw
Don't let fear of failure discourage you. Don't let the voice of critics paralyze you - whether that voice comes from the outside or the inside.
— Dieter F. Uchtdorf
As far as I'm concerned, the 20th century was performance-driven, but for some reason, the critics and historians didn't know how to integrate that.
— Roselee Goldberg
Freedom of Speech has become Freedom of Stupidity on the internet. Some ignominious users should not be given a voice to comment at all.
— Michael P. Naughton
It is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!
— Joyce Carol Oates
Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
Critics have a job to do. I understand that. It's not just to criticize. They're trying to interpret art for the public.
— Paul Emsley
To complain about critics in a business is like a sailor complaining about the waves. Go back to the beach if you don't like it.
— Ricky Gervais
The critics - how come you never see any of them on TV?
— Willard Scott
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
— Abraham Lincoln
I COULD CARE LESS ABOUT CRITICS, LIKE I SAID THEY DONT BUY TICKETS.
— Larry The Cable Guy
CAVILER, n. A critic of our own work.
— Ambrose Bierce
Unfortunately, many regard the critic as an enemy, instead of seeing him as a guide to the truth.
— Wilhelm Steinitz
There are many out there who proudly call themselves critics, but I have come to see that many of those critics have never tested their own skill.
— Allison Mackie
A critic is a man who writes about things he doesn't like.
— H.L. Mencken
You have an internal critic, an internal drive that says, 'OK, you can do more.' Maybe that's what keeps you going.
— Robin Williams
