If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn’t swim.
Critic - Criticism Quotes
I don’t pay much attention to critics. The world is divided into two kinds of people: those who can, and those who criticize.
A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.
In a writer there must always be two people – the writer and the critic.
Too many people, especially academics, confuse being critical with thinking critically. But they are only sometimes the same thing – and they are never the same thing when the criticism is reflexive rather than reflective.
Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes.
I never give them hell; I just tell them the truth and they think it is hell.
Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars and blossoms together.
(Several critics have pointed out that) the play (Saint Joan) could be considerably shortened. I think they are mistaken. The experienced knights of the blue pencil, having saved an hour and a half by disemboweling the play, would at once proceed to waste two hours in building elaborate scenery… Joan would be burnt on stage […]
I have just read your lousy review buried in the back pages. You sound like a frustrated old man who never made a success, an eight-ulcer man on a four-ulcer job, and all four ulcers working. I never met you, but if I do you’ll need a new nose and plenty of beefsteak and perhaps […]
