C Quotes
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“Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those excellencies which delight a reasonable reader.”
Source: The Works of John Dryden, Volume XII: Plays Ambboyna, The State of Innocence, Aureng-Zebe
“Criticism, even when you try to ignore it, can hurt. I have cried over many articles written about me, but I move on and I don't hold on to that.”
“Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.”
“Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.”
Source: Complete Short Stories of Joseph Conrad (Including His Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays: Unforgettable Tales like Heart of Darkness, Point of Honor, Falk, Secret Sharer, The Return & Freya of Seven Isles
“Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability of science.”
Source: The Rambler
“Criticism- a big bite out of someone's back.”
Source: The Selected Letters of Elia Kazan
“Criticism? An artist wants praise. Praise.”
“Criticisms and revolt do not solve a thing, what does, in actuality, not in theory, is awareness of the reality.”
“Criticisms are like homing pigeons. They always return home.”
Source: How to win friends & influence people
“Criticisms of a society filled with fools have no power in them to bother the sage that has emerged from the agonizing fire of misery.”
Source: Love, God & Neurons: Memoir of a scientist who found himself by getting lost
“Criticize me if you can, but that won't stop me from saying what i like, my mouth is mine, and not yours.”
“Criticize on defense and encourage on offense.”
“Criticize the act, not the person.”
Source: The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur
“Criticized for using formal mathematical manipulations, without understanding how they worked: Should I refuse a good dinner simply because I do not understand the process of digestion?”
“Criticizing Fox News has nothing to do with criticizing the press. Fox News is not a news organization. It is the de facto leader of the GOP, and it is long past time that it is treated as such by the media, elected officials and the public.”
“Criticizing himself again, Sidgwick writes: I am not an original man: and I think less of my own thoughts every day.”
Source: On What Matters: Volume One
“Criticizing is easy, art is difficult.”
“Criticizing Israel is not anti-Semitic, and saying so is vile. But singling out Israel for opprobrium and international sanction - out of all proportion to any other party in the Middle East - is anti-Semitic, and not saying so is dishonest.”
“Criticizing lawyers for lawsuits is like criticizing linebackers for knocking people down.”
“Criticizing others tells much more about your character than the character of the person you are criticizing.”
“Criticizing people, winding them up, making idiots of them or fooling them doesn't make people with autism laugh. What makes us smile from the inside is seeing something beautiful, or a memory makes us laugh. This generally happens when there's nobody watching us. And at night, on our own, we might burst out laughing underneath the duvet, or roar with later in an empty room ... When we don't need to think about other people or anything else, that's when we wear our aural expressions.”
“Criticizing reporters is like boo-ing at the Special Olympics.”
“Criticizing to destroy is easy, thinking in order to build is much more difficult to achieve”
“Criticizing Yourself = Stress = Reduced Sexual Pleasure”
Source: Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
“Criticks are like brushers of Noblemens cloaths.”
“Critico y seguiré criticando firmemente los actos de corrupción y el mal uso de poder! Porque son actitudes malignas que se van implementando de forma lenta pero segura en la mentalidad de nuestra sociedad.”
“Critics and fans use the music of their youth as reference points. For years, people seriously wondered who "the next Beatles" were going to be, and classic rock bands were the de facto yardstick for rock quality.”
“Critics are a kind of freebooters in the republic of letters--who, like deer, goats and divers other graminivorous animals, gain subsistence by gorging upon buds and leaves of the young shrubs of the forest, thereby robbing them of their verdure, and retarding their progress to maturity.”
Source: The Complete Works: With a Memoir of the Author
“Critics are already made.”
“Critics are always complaining about the materialism of hip-hop and accusing the artists of living way above their means. But this ostentatious sort of spending isn't strictly the province of hip-hop. It's almost like a continuation of the American Dream.”
“Critics are biased, and so are readers. (Indeed, a critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.) But intelligent readers soon discover how to allow for the windage of their own and a critic's prejudices.”
Source: Dinosaurs in the Morning: Forty-One Pieces on Jazz
“Critics are eunuchs at a gang bang.”
“Critics are giving marks for originality, acting, photography and scripting, while mass audiences are more drawn to familiarity of genre, stars they would like to have sex with or plots that are more likely to make their dates have sex with them. Reviewers are doing their day's work, cinema-goers are escaping from theirs: this leads to an inevitable difference of response. It is, though, wrong to conclude that reviewers are completely useless. Books, movies and shows may be critic-proof, but the egos and psyches of the people who make them very rarely are.”
“Critics are important. They give us the reasons, knowingly or unknowingly, not to fall, slumber or deviate from our true purpose . If only you would see, understand and appreciate the real lessons your critics teach you with a calm heart, you would know and understand that your critics are nothing but great facilitators to help you get to your vision and true purpose diligently and distinctively.”
“Critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes.”
Source: The Complete Works of George Herbert: And The Satires and Psalms of Bishop Hall
“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.”
“Critics are like eunuchs: they know how, but they can't do it.”
“Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can't do it themselves!”
“Critics are like horse-flies which hinder the horses in their plowing of the soil. The horse works, all its muscles drawn tight like the strings on a double-bass, and a fly settles on his flanks and tickles and buzzes. And what does the fly buzz about? It scarcely knows itself; simply because it is restless and wants to proclaim: 'Look, I too am living on the earth. See, I can buzz, too, buzz about anything.'”
“Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.”
“Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“Critics are loud, but success is louder.”
“Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors.”
“Critics are more committed to the rules of art than artists are.”
“Critics are notoriously liberal with their use of the term 'genius'.”
“Critics are reprimanded when they get sarcastic. How absurd! Is the torch of criticism supposed to shine without burning?”
“Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art of living.”
“Critics are the products of their own times and biases and what they have to say about works of art is as transient and insubstantial as fashion.”
“Critics are those righteous experts who judge other people's hard earned accomplishmens as they themselves stand on the sidelines of life.”
“Critics are to authors what dogs are to lamp-posts.”