| Author |
Quotes |
| Isaac D Israeli | Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised. |
| James Thomas Fields | "I'm an owl: you're another. Sir Critic, good day." And the barber kept on shaving. |
| John Dryden | Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors. |
| John Dryden | They who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite. |
| John Dryden | All who have writ ill plays before, For they, like thieves, condemned, are hangman made, To execute the members of their trade. |
| Joseph Addison | When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after the works of the author who has written them, and by that means discover what it is he likes in a composition. |
| Mark Twain | The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all. |
| Marvin J Ashton | Give no time to finding fault of criticism. |
| Oliver Goldsmith | Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man. |
| Phillipe V Destouches | Criticism is easy, and art is difficult. |
| Raymond Smullyan | 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.". |
| Samuel Butler | He was in Logic, a great critic, Profoundly skill'd in Analytic; He could distinguish, and divide A hair 'twixt south and south-west side. |
| Samuel Johnson | Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well. |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets, historians, biographers, etc., if they could: they have tried their talents at one or the other, and have failed; therefore they turn critics. |
| Somerset Maugham | People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. |
| Walter Winchell | Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants. |
| Wentworth Dillon | The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age. |
| William Collins | Too nicely Jonson knew the critic's part, Nature in him was almost lost in art. |
| William Congreve | There are come Critics so with Spleen diseased, They scarcely come inclining to be pleased, And sure he must have more than mortal Skill, Who please one against his Will. |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Blame is safer than praise. |
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