Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes about Criticism

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What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.

What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Self, Criticism, Excess

"Sidelights on New London and Newer New York : And Other Essays". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1932.

It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Power, Criticism, Speech

The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Artist, Creative, Criticism

The Innocence of Father Brown "The Blue Cross" (1911)

Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Criticism, Use

In the modern conflict between the Smile and the Laugh, I am all in favor of laughing. The recent stage of culture and criticism might very well be summed up as the men who smile criticizing the men who laugh.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men, Laughing, Criticism

A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying, 'Of course I do not like green cheese. I am very fond of brown sherry.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Men, Criticism, Green

1933 All I Survey,'On Jonathan Swift'.

Either criticism is no good at all (a very defensible position) or else criticism means saying about an author the very things that would have made him jump out of his boots.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Mean, Criticism, Boots

"Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens". Book by G. K. Chesterton, 1911.