A book reviewer is usually a ‘barker’ before the door of a publisher’s circus.
Critic - Criticism Quotes
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.
Justly to discriminate, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award should be the aim of all criticism.
He thinks he was knocked off his horse by God, like St. Paul on the road to Damascus. His critics think he simply fell off from old age.
To know anything about oneself, one must know all about others. There must be no mood with which one cannot sympathize, no dead mode of life that one cannot make alive. The legacies of heredity may make us alter our views of moral responsibility, but they cannot but intensify our sense of the value of […]
I have lost count of the number of dull books I have hailed as masterpieces, rather than trouble myself to finish.
