Criticism Quotes

It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.

Forget it! Critics are like leeches sucking the blood of writers.

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Je n'ai rien à faire de ce que vous pensez de moi. Moi je ne pense pas du tout à vous.

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Unknown author

Public Opinion

Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue.

“My generation, all of our making fun of things isn't making the world any better.” she says. “We've spent so much time judging what other people created that we've created very, very little of our own.”

I went back to collecting Buck Rogers. My life has been happy ever since. For that was the beginning of my writing science fiction. Since then, I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.

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Ray Bradbury

Drunk, and in Charge of a Bicycle

Quotes About Myself

Believe In Yourself

They know only the established,-in fact, they are the established. They are weak minded, and the established impresses itself upon them as easily as the name of the brewery is impressed on a beer bottle. And their function is to catch all the young fellows attending the university, to drive out of their minds any glimmering originality that may chance to be there, and to put upon them the stamp of the established.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming.

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Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Art

Beautiful

The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.

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Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The highest, as the lowest, form of criticism is a mode of autobiography.

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Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

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Benjamin Disraeli

— Caroline Meade, how can you let your husband conduct this slave auction!
— How dare you criticize me! melanie told the doctor that if it's for the Cause, it's quite all right.
— She did?
— Where are my smelling saults? I think I shall faint.
— Don't you dare faint, Pittypat! If Melanie says it's all right, it is all right.

At a charity evening in favor of the soldiers of the Confederacy, for the sake of fundraising, Dr. Meade announced that gentlemen can buy a dance my lady.

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