Criticism Quotes
These are some of the best 'Criticism' quotations and sayings.
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As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.
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Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.
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Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public.
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
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Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
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Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.
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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
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Criticism is the art of appraising others at one's own value.
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Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.
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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.
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Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars and blossoms together.
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Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.
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Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
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Criticism, even when you try to ignore it, can hurt. I have cried over many articles written about me, but I move on and I don't hold on to that .
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Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.
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Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
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Critics are the men who have failed in literature and art.
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Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procrustes turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.
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Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.
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