“If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.” IfsLittlesWould BeCriticismCriticsDeterminedPrintCensorshipPrintedPrinting PressOffendingCensoredCensoringPrinterFree ExpressionBanned BooksCensorship In BooksBook BanningCensoring BooksPrinted WordPrinted BooksFreedom Of Speech And Expression Book:Autobiographical Writings Source: Autobiographical Writings
“Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation.” LittlesCriticismEndurePausesAdulation Author:Walter Lippmann
“Criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.” ThinkingShouldLittlesRealDoneCriticismJustification Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
“Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened and empty of life, or else they are just clever word-games, in which one view wins today, and tomorrow the opposite view. Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism.” MeanLittlesArtTodayGamesWinningViewsOpinionTomorrowSolitudeApproachCriticismEmptyOppositesInfiniteCleverUselessWorks Of ArtMeaninglessPartisansHardenedLiterary CriticismToday And Tomorrow Author:Rainer Maria Rilke
“Criticism is now become mere hangman's work, and meddles only with the faults of authors ; nay, the critic is disgusted less with their absurdities than excellence ; and you cannot displease him more than in leaving him little room for his malice.” LittlesRoomsCriticismFaultsExcellenceMereCriticsLeavingAbsurdityMaliceDisgustedHangmanLeaving Him Book:The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life Source: The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life