| Author |
Quotes |
| Abraham Lincoln | He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help. |
| Alexander Pope | Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. |
| Benjamin Disraeli | It is much easier to be critical that to be correct. |
| Benjamin Disraeli | You know who critics are?--the men who have failed in literature and art. |
| Benjamin Disraeli | It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. |
| Anonymous | Even the lion has to defend himself against flies. |
| Cervantes Saavedra | Said the pot to the kettle, "Get away, blackface." |
| Channing Pollock | Each generation produces its squad of "moderns" with peashooters to attack Gibraltar. |
| Charles Buxton | The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon. |
| Charles Churchill | Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say? Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason, In such a state as theirs, is downright treason. |
| Charles Churchill | Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, They damn those authors whom they never read. |
| Charles Churchill | A servile race Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place; Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools, Bigots to Greece, and slaves to musty rules. |
| Charles Churchill | But, spite of all the criticising elves, Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves. |
| Charles Churchill | I criticize by creation--not by finding fault. |
| Elbert Hubbard | To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. |
| Franklin Jones | Honest criticism is hard to take - especially when it comes from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. |
| George Eliot | Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms. |
| Harry S Truman | I never give them hell; I just tell them the truth and they think it is hell. |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized. |
| Isaac D Israeli | The most noble criticism is that in which the critic is not the antagonist so much as the rival of the author. |
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