I don't want to see the uncut version of anything.

~ Jean Kerr

Jean Kerr Critics Criticism

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

George Bernard Shaw Critics Criticism

The critic is an overgoer with pen-envy.

~ Geoffrey Hartman

Geoffrey Hartman Critics Criticism

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

James Mcneill Whistler Critics Criticism

Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics.

~ Mark Twain

Mark Twain Critics Criticism

He has a right to criticize who has a heart to help.

~ Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln Critics Criticism

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

Randall Jarrell Critics Criticism

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

Frank Kermode Critics Criticism

Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.

~ Henri-Frédéric Amiel

Henri-Frédéric Amiel Critics Criticism

His words leap across rivers and mountains but his thoughts are still only six inches long.

~ E. B. White

E. B. White Critics Criticism

When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

~ Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde Critics Criticism

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

Alfred North Whitehead Critics Criticism

To many people dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.

~ John Mason Brown

John Mason Brown Critics Criticism

The test of a good critic is whether he knows when and how to believe on insufficient evidence.

~ Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler Critics Criticism

Reprove not a scorner lest he hate thee rebuke a wise man and he will love thee.

~ Bible

Bible Critics Criticism

In judging others folks will work overtime for no pay.

~ Charles Edwin Carruthers

Charles Edwin Carruthers Critics Criticism

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

~ Kenneth Tynan

Kenneth Tynan Critics Criticism

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

Lillian Hellman Critics Criticism

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

~ Channing Pollock

Channing Pollock Critics Criticism

Vilify! Vilify! Some of it will always stick.

~ Pierre Beaumarchais

Pierre Beaumarchais Critics Criticism

Always bring money along with your complaints.

~ Plautus

Plautus Critics Criticism

Nature fits all her children with something to do He who would write and can't write can surely review.

~ James Russell Lowell

James Russell Lowell Critics Criticism

Nature when she invented manufactured and patented her authors contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes Critics Criticism

To escape criticism - do nothing say nothing be nothing.

~ Elbert Hubbard

Elbert Hubbard Critics Criticism

Any fool can criticize and many of them do.

~ Archbishop C. Garbett

Archbishop C. Garbett Critics Criticism

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

Brendan Behan Critics Criticism

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

Max Reger Critics Criticism

The good critic is he who narrates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.

~ Anatole France

Anatole France Critics Criticism

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

Laurence Sterne Critics Criticism

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

Robertson Davies Critics Criticism

A critic at best is a waiter at the great table of literature.

~ Louis Dudek

Louis Dudek Critics Criticism

I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played.

~ Virgil Thomson

Virgil Thomson Care Say Critics

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

~ Walt Disney

Walt Disney Trying Critics Chances

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

~ Malcolm X

Malcolm X You Critics Likely