Benjamin Disraeli Quotes about Criticism
You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.
"The Sayings of Disraeli".
Doubt is an element of criticism, and the tendency of criticism is necessarily skeptical.
Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1864). “Church policy: a speech delivered by the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, M.P. at a meeting of the Oxford Diocesan Society for the Augmentation of Small Livings, in the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, Nov. 25, 1864, etc”, p.17
Isaac Disraeli, Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1861). “Curiosities of literature”, p.81