Criticism Quotes

Court not the critic's smile nor dread his frown

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

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

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

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

Tyne Daly

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

Theology, not morality, is the first business on the church's agenda of reform, and the church, not society, is the first target of divine criticism

Michael Scott Horton

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