Criticism Quotes & Sayings

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~ Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense ~

~ The most vigilant self-criticism of course is necessary, but the time comes when the artist must tell himself he is good or he will go under ~

Gerald Moor

~ There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife. ~

Stephen Spender

~ Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. ~

Franklin P. Jones

~ Criticism is prejudice made plausible. ~

H. L. Mencken

~ Coughing in the theatre is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism. ~

Alan Jay Lerner

~ I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise. ~

Noel Coward

~ The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. ~

Norman Vincent Peale

~ One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide. ~

Charles Horton Cooley

~ National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services ~

Corazon Aquino

~ I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance ~

Harold Macmillan

~ Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive. ~

Henry Steele Commager

~ You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one. ~

John Wooden

~ Don't abuse your friends and expect them to consider it criticism. ~

Edgar Watson Howe

~ Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, the cant of criticism is the most tormenting! ~

Laurence Sterne

~ The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism ~

Moliere, Le Misanthrope

~ A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else. ~

Richard Hofstadter

~ A university`s essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism-a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else. ~

Richard Hofstadter

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

Winston Churchill

~ The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion. ~

Walter Benjamin

~ Whatever harsh criticisms may be passed on the construction of her sentences, she at least possesses that one touch of vulgarity that makes the whole world kin. ~

Oscar Wilde

~ Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity. ~

Joseph Addison

~ The resentment that criticism engenders can demoralize employees, family members and friends, and still not correct the situation that has been condemned. ~

Dale Carnegie

~ Much literary criticism comes from people for whom extreme specialization is a cover for either grave cerebral inadequacy or terminal laziness, the latter being a much cherished aspect of academic freedom. ~

John Kenneth Galbraith

~ In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept destructive criticism. Without 100 percent dedication, you won't be able to do this. ~

Willie Mays

~ I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it seems to be more a matter of inertia than it is of people having some real reason for thinking something else. ~

K. Eric Drexler

~ 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

~ Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings. ~

Octavio Paz

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

Winston Churchill

~ We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship, for to undertake to wound or offe ~

Michel de Montaigne

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