Criticism Quotes - Page 17

Why anyone, by dying, should thereby be declared beyond criticism, innocent of wrongdoing, suddenly filled with virtue and above reproach escapes me.

There was a time in South Africa that people would put flaming tires around peoples' necks if they dis-sented. And in some ways the fear is that you will be necklaced here, you will have a flaming tire of lack of patriotism put around your neck. Now it is that fear that keeps journalists from asking the toughest of the tough questions... And again, I am humbled to say, I do not except myself from this criticism.

It's wrong to criticize leaders of the Church, even if the criticism is true.

The resentment that criticism engenders can demoralize employees, family members and friends, and still not correct the situation that has been condemned.

criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person's precious pride, hurt his sense of importace and arouse resentment.

For me, there is only one means of ensuring that I do not lose respect for myself: constant criticism.

Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.

To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons.

Love has the kind of power criticism only wishes it had.

A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.

Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.

You know who the critics are? The men who have failed in literature and art.

An artist must only judge of what he understands, his field is just as limited as that of any other specialist... That in his sphere there are no questions, but only answers, can only be maintained by those who have never written and have had no experience of thinking in images.

Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.

A healthy person can accept criticism.

The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.

I don't take criticism lying down.

The press, the pulpit, and the stage, Conspire to censure and expose our age.

An ingenious mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.

You have to laugh, you have to be able to take criticism.

I find the pain of a little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more acute than the pleasure of much praise.

To announce there must be no criticism of the president or that we are to stand with the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

I think criticism of good work should stop somewhere.