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A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded

Tyne Daly

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those excellencies which delight a reasonable reader

John Dryden

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.

Eli Wallach

Never criticize your spouse's faults; if it weren't for them, your mate might have found someone better than you

Jay Trachman

According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.

Octavio Paz

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

Dale Carnegie

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.

Benjamin Franklin

One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself

Mark Twain

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing

Aristotle

Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if you're not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.

Ani Difranco

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.

Frank A. Clark

Don't pay any attention to the critics-don't even ignore them.

Samuel Goldwyn

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.

Walt Disne

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

Emile M. Cioran

The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not

Edward Albee

We protest against unjust criticism, but we accept unearned applause.

Jose Narosky

Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive.

Donald Rumsfeld

Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.

Samuel Johnson

No one so thoroughly appreciates the value of constructive criticism as the one who's giving it

Hal Chadwick

It is ridiculous for any man to criticize the works of another if he has not distinguished himself by his own performances

Joseph Addison

To make a criticism is a bit like complaining about the shape of the Pyramids.

Piers Brendon

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

Franklin P. Jones

I'll write, because I'll give - You critics means to live; For should I not supply - The cause, the effect would die

Robert Herrick

The strength of criticism lies only in the weakness of the thing criticized

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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