Critic - Criticism Quotes

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.

Dear Mrs. Jones: Thank you for your letter. I shall try to do better.

Do not… regard the critics as questionable patriots. What were Washington and Jefferson and Adams but profound critics of the colonial status quo?

I never criticize anyone. The way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation and encouragement.

Find the grain of truth in criticism – chew it and swallow it.

Court not the critic’s smile nor dread his frown.

Censure is the the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.

I must be cruel only to be kind. (Hamlet)

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people’s, if we are always criticizing trivial actions – which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.