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Since we cannot attain unto it, let us revenge ourselves with railing against it.
— Michel De Montaigne
A helping hand is better than a critical tongue.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
A social critic is someone whose work revolves around where and how our successes are failing us.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
In criticism, I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
— Edgar Allan Poe
No government should be without critics. If its intentions are good then it has nothing to fear from criticism.
— Thomas Jefferson
Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism.
— Parker Palmer
Wealthy people attract critics like wealthy ships attract pirates.
— Orrin Woodward
The devil's happy when the critics run you off.
— Criss Jami
There is probably no hell for authors in the next worldthey suffer so much from critics and publishers in this one. — C.N. Bovee
We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.
— Jonathan Swift
Critics like to build you up, tear you down, and then, if you're lucky, build you up again.
— Spike Lee
Of course you're always at liberty to judge the critic. Judge people as critics, however, and you'll condemn them all!
— Henry James
Criticism often hides incompetence & increases vanity. Therefore critics are always more vain that the achievers they criticize.
— Steve Cioccolanti
The stones that critics hurl with harsh intent, a man may use to build his monument.
— Arthur Guiterman
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Learn to brush off criticism as easily as you brush aside hollow compliments.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade,Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made. — Alexander Pope
Those who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write,Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite. — John Dryden
You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely everything
— Gustave Flaubert
The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades.
— Mark Twain
The eyes of critics, whether in commending or carping, are both on one side, like a turbot's.
— Walter Savage Landor
There is something essentially ridiculous about critics, anyway: what is good is good without our saying so, and beneath all our majesty we know this.
— Randall Jarrell
Time is the only critic.
— James M. Cain
You should praise, criticize and flirt with people right to their face, only then it will make a difference.
— Amit Kalantri
We don't trust our five senses; we rely on our critics and educators, all of whom are failures in the realm of creation.
— Henry Miller
I'm not interested in the reviews by critics over the age of 15.
— Mark A. Cooper
Critics are already made.
— Lord Byron
One problem with the work of the New Critics was that their close readings, no matter how brilliant, could not deliver all they seemed to promise.
— Jewel Spears Brooker
Magicians made magic but critics made it tricks.
— Amit Kalantri
Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?
— Franz Grillparzer
In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
The critics only made me work harder.
— Muhammad Ali
Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing.
— Joyce Carol Oates
The critics are generally wrong, or they're fifteen, twenty years late. It's a great shame. They miss out on a lot.
— Ray Bradbury
This is what is known as perspective, and it is a swindle.
— Kurt Schwitters
If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings!
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
To listen to critics, pro or con, and take their words to heart is to subcontract your self-esteem to strangers. (from Workbook)
— Steven Heighton
The highest level than can be reached by a mediocre but experienced mind is a talent for uncovering the weaknesses of those greater than itself.
— Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Those of my critics who declare I have no feeling for form will be filled with delight over the meandering formlessness of these notes.
— Sherwood Anderson
By encouraging the critic in themselves (the hater) they have killed the artist (the lover).
— Brenda Ueland
Critiquing a doer isn't doing.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
If they judge God, remember, they will judge you.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
The art critics on some of Britain's newspapers could as easily have been assigned gardening or travel, and been cheerfully employed for life.
— Charles Saatchi
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
Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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
The imagination of the genius vastly surpasses his intellect; the intellect of the academic vastly surpasses his imagination
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
For the achiever the battle with critics is a slow war of attrition. Let time do the dirty work for you.
— Bryant McGill
To fail, try to please your critics. To please your critics, try to fail.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Critics don't want to see directors they like make too much of a left turn. That's good for criticism.
— Quentin Tarantino
The higher you rise, the smaller your enemies.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.
— Alexander Pope
A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned.
— George Bernard Shaw
Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Critics do not determine how high an eagle flies.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Criticism didn't really stop us and it shouldn't ever stop anyone, because critics are only the people who can't get a record deal themselves.
— Paul McCartney
Just as no monkey is as good-looking as the ugliest of humans, no academic is worthier than the worst of the creators
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Critics are those righteous experts who judge other people's hard earned accomplishmens as they themselves stand on the sidelines of life.
— Aaron Lauritsen
I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.
— Leonard Bernstein
If you love my work, you are a good critic. If you do not love my work, you are a 'not good' critic.
— Roman Payne
Procrastination threatens critics' livelihood.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
