I don't want to see the uncut version of anything.
~ Jean Kerr
It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The critic is an overgoer with pen-envy.
~ Geoffrey Hartman
Two and two continue to make four in spite of the whine of the amateur for three or the cry of the critic for five.
~ James Mcneill Whistler
Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.
~ Mark Twain
He has a right to criticize who has a heart to help.
~ Abraham Lincoln
More and more people think of the critic as an indispensable middle man between writer and reader and would no more read a book alone if they could help it than have a baby alone.
~ Randall Jarrell
It is not expected of critics that they should help us to make sense of our lives they are bound only to attempt the lesser feat of making sense of the ways we try to make sense of our lives.
~ Frank Kermode
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel
His words leap across rivers and mountains but his thoughts are still only six inches long.
~ E. B. White
When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
~ Oscar Wilde
The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism founded upon appreciation of beauty and of intellectual distinction and of duty.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
To many people dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.
~ John Mason Brown
The test of a good critic is whether he knows when and how to believe on insufficient evidence.
~ Samuel Butler
Reprove not a scorner lest he hate thee rebuke a wise man and he will love thee.
~ Bible
In judging others folks will work overtime for no pay.
~ Charles Edwin Carruthers
A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
~ Kenneth Tynan
If you are willing to take the punishment you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial the battle ugly is another point.
~ Lillian Hellman
A critic is a legless man who teaches running.
~ Channing Pollock
Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick.
~ Pierre Beaumarchais
Always bring money along with your complaints.
~ Plautus
Nature fits all her children with something to do He who would write and can't write can surely review.
~ James Russell Lowell
Nature when she invented manufactured and patented her authors contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
To escape criticism - do nothing say nothing be nothing.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Any fool can criticize and many of them do.
~ Archbishop C. Garbett
Critics are like eunuchs in a harem: they know how it's done they've seen it done every day but they're unable to do it themselves.
~ Brendan Behan
I am sitting in the smallest room in my house. I have your review in front of me. Soon it will be behind me.
~ Max Reger
The good critic is he who narrates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.
~ Anatole France
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world tho' the cant of hypocrites may be the worst the cant of criticism is the most tormenting.
~ Laurence Sterne
The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights actors and audiences - a figure dreaded and occasionally comic but never welcome never loved.
~ Robertson Davies
A critic at best is a waiter at the great table of literature.
~ Louis Dudek
Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.
~ Joyce Meyer
China and the U.S. are two societies with very different attitudes towards opinion and criticism. In China, I am constantly under surveillance. Even my slightest, most innocuous move can - and often is - censored by Chinese authorities.
~ Ai Weiwei
There is no, and cannot be, any situation in which we don't respect the law and the judiciary. It is unacceptable to attack the courts; criticism is allowed, but attacks are not. It shakes the basis of our democracy.
~ Reuven Rivlin
The study of literature threatens to become a kind of paleontology of failure, and criticism a supercilious psychoanalysis of authors.
~ John Updike
Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.
~ Karl Popper
Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.
~ Charles Babbage
I like criticism. It makes you strong.
~ Lebron James
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Japanese bureaucracy is unique. It is also very powerful, although it is now the object of so much criticism. Many of Japan's brightest made it a pillar of strength and continuity.
~ F. Sionil José
