Critic - Criticism Quotes

A man’s first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world.

If you do not agree with the phases of the moon, get a ladder and repair it.

Those who can’t dance say the music is no good.

In the face of unjust criticism we can become bitter or better; upset or understanding; hostile or humble; furious or forgiving.

A book reviewer is usually a ‘barker’ before the door of a publisher’s circus.

To persevere in one’s duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny.

Never criticize your wife’s judgment look whom she’s married!

Rabi ibn Khuthaym was asked, “Why do you never find fault with anybody?” He said, “I am not so fully satisfied with myself that I have leisure to seek out the defects of others. (13th-14thC A.D.)

Most knocking is done by folks who don’t know how to ring the bell.

I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.