There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle that gets rid of what is dead, and, since the world lives by creative and constructive forces, and not by negation and destruction, it is better to grow up in […]
Critic - Criticism Quotes
A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.
Critics ought never to be consulted, but while errors may yet be rectified or insipidity suppressed. But when the book has once been dismissed into the world, and can be no more retouched, I know not whether a very different conduct should not be prescribed, and whether firmness and spirit may not sometimes be of […]
The strength of criticism lies only in the weakness of the thing criticized.
The whole history of criticism has been a triumph of authors over critics.
The animadversions of critics are commonly such as may easily provoke the sedatest writer to some quickness of resentment and asperity of reply.
Some critics are like chimney-sweeper; they put out the fire below, and frighten the swallows from their nests above; they scrape a long time in the chimney, cover themselves with soot, and bring nothing away but a bag of cinders, and then sing out from the top of the house, as if they had built […]
Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them, and you have their shoes.
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
A wise scepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.
