Criticism Quotes

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

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

Christopher Morley

A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.

Dustin Hoffman

All critics should be assassinated.

Man Ray

Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

Alan Jay Lerner

Critics like to build you up, tear you down, and then, if you're lucky, build you up again.

Spike Lee

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

Noel Coward

Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.

Jean Sibelius

Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.

Stephen Jay Gould

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

Jean de la Bruyere

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