In general, when reading a scholarly critic, one profits more from his quotations than from his comments.
Critic - Criticism Quotes
The public is wiser than the wisest critic.
Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it’s done, they’ve seen it done every day, but they’re unable to do it themselves.
Critic, n.: A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.
Review, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it. Although in truth there’s neither bone nor skin to it) At work upon a book, and so read out of it The qualities that you have first read into it.
Caviler, n. A critic of our own work.
The sneakiest form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt society, is to speak the plain truth. The critics will not understand you; the public will not believe you; your fellow writers will shake their heads.
It is ridiculous for any man to criticize the works of another if he has not distinguished himself by his own performances.
There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.
The majority of our critics are best qualified to cover brush fires in New Jersey.
