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The pleasure of criticizing robs us of the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things

Jean de la Bruyere

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

Donald Rumsfeld

Court not the critic's smile nor dread his frown

Sir Walter Scott

They criticize me for harping on the obvious - If all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves

Calvin Coolidge

Literary critics, however, frequently suffer from a curious belief that every author longs to extend the boundaries of literary art, wants to explore new dimensions of the human spirit, and if he doesn't, he should be ashamed of himself.

Robertson Davies

Critics don't bother me because if I do badly, I know I'm bad before they even write it. And if I'm good, I know I'm good. I know best about myself, so a critic doesn't anger me.

Frank Sinatra

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

The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.

George Moore

What the public criticizes in you, cultivate. It is you.

Jean Cocteau

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.

Peter Ustinov

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

Harold Macmillan

Critics, like the rest of mankind, are very frequently misled by interest

Samuel Johnson

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

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it

Unknown

Before you go and criticize the younger generation, just remember who raised them.

Unknown

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

Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting

Emmet Fox

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

Elvis Presley

Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own.

Unknown

A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.

Whitney Balliett

The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising.

Pauline Kael

In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.

Harold Bloom

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.

Hugo Black

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