Criticism Quotes

Like it or not, women are always subject to criticism if they show too much feeling in public.

It's important to take criticism seriously - not personally.

It is important to learn how to take criticism seriously, but not personally.

Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good.

Not many people like it when they get criticism. Of course, if you have someone who does tell you and you do have a rapport, that's great. But don't rely on it. You have to rely on yourself.

The best criticism is the sort that tells you what you already know but had been reluctant to accuse yourself of.

When a book of mine comes out, I instantly go hunting the net, not for praise, but for criticism, because that's how you learn, from people who don't have to be polite to you.

I like to not care that much about criticism, but I do care about it.

I've never let the criticism deter me.

Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.

none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.

When ideas are young and vulnerable, criticism can be lethal.

Criticism is always easier than constructive solutions.

For every action there’s a reaction. And also, for every action there’s an equal and opposite criticism.

The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.

The most accomplished literary work would be reduced to nothing by carping criticism, if the author would listen to all critics and allow every one to erase the passage which pleases him the least.

I think that criticism is unjustified. It's a cute term, but noone shouldn't be criticized for who he is.

In 1998, Artnet was the site that convinced me that if my writing didn't exist online, it didn't exist at all. It showed me criticism's future.

There's always criticism in any process and I think that's a healthy thing.

I believe that comedians do what they do, and then they get credit or criticism for doing it. There's nothing planned about this.

Thoughtful criticism and close scrutiny of all government officials by the press and the public are an important part of our democratic society.

Jeb Bush is facing criticism after it was just revealed that he checked off his race as 'Hispanic' on a voter registration form back in 2009. When asked if he regrets it now, Bush said, 'Si.'

I will accept comments and criticism about change.

My recent activities have been concentrated on criticism on and actions against Japan's and worldwide plutonium programs, since it is, as I believe, one of the greatest threats to the world.

I really recommend that anyone who wants to write have a very physical hobby that takes you away from books and criticism, because it teaches you, it informs you, and it changes your writing.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don't have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.

In dealing with Mr. Nixon, it is not easy to be unfair. He invites and justifies all available criticism.

A cruel critic has never made anything; his glibness is a way of inflicting his emptiness on others.

Since separation precludes financial support or special privilege from government, the churches are free to engage in prophetic criticism of the government and to work for social justice.

I don’t think the United States has done anything whatsoever to merit any criticism by the British.

Hate is just a form of criticism. You can never truly grow as a person until you’ve taken everything the world can throw at you. Sometimes you just have to let it hit you and move on

Strength and success; they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it.

One doesn't mind adverse criticism so long as it isn't stupid.

When I first started writing in my early 20s it was literary criticism for a very eccentric magazine called Books And Bookmen, which allowed me to write, more or less anything.

Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a work of art.

If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.

To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism.

There has been a fair amount of criticism of the DNC for letting this squabble between [Bernie] Sanders and [Hillary] Clinton campaigns spill out into the open.

It is essential for the good of criticism that both the critic and the public face the fact that a review is not the voice of God.

Even before 9/11 I was gripped by a sense of dread: our lack of criticism about what we were doing in the Middle East - the slagging off of a whole religious tradition.

Most critics write critiques which are by the authors they write critiques about. That would not be so bad, but then most authorswrite works which are by the critics who write critiques about them.

A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram.

Serious rational criticism is so rare that it should be encouraged. Being too ready to defend oneself is more dangerous than being too ready to admit a mistake.

Criticism of my alleged views was widespread and highly successful. I have yet to meet a criticism of my views.

Whoever could properly characterize Goethe's Meister would have actually expressed what is the timely trend in literature. He would be able, as far as literary criticism is concerned, to rest.

The nonfiction novel or literary memoir as authored by women is usually given a much harder time in mainstream criticism.

My music appeals in America. There is less of the purist criticism I get here. And to be a hit in the U.S... what singer doesn't have that dream?

The criticism is that it's too simple, but my feeling is it's more of a challenge making someone feel an emotion in four notes than in 25 notes.

It is futile to debate on what is wrong and right with people whose remorse is not their punishment, nor is it reasonable to care about their promise and criticism.