Most knocking is done by folks who don’t know how to ring the bell.
Critic - Criticism Quotes
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.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
Who am I to stone the first cast?
The President is merely the most important among a large number of public servants. He should be supported or opposed exactly to the degree which is warranted by his good conduct or bad conduct, his efficiency or inefficiency in rendering loyal, able, and disinterested service to the nation as a whole. Therefore it is absolutely […]
Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled “wrong.”
