Criticism proverbs

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◆ I haven't any right to criticize books, and I don't do it except when I hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

- Mark Twain99

◆ Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

- Andy Warhol99

◆ Don't criticize what you can't understand.

- Bob Dylan99

◆ To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

- Aristotle99

◆ I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. But for the rest of my life, I am going to be with me and I don't want to spend my life with someone who is always critical. So I am going to stop being my own critic. It's high time that I accept all the great things about me.

- C. JoyBell C.99

◆ A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.

- Virginia Woolf99

◆ He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

- Abraham Lincoln99

◆ Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

- Dale Carnegie99

◆ The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.

- Carlos Ruiz Zafón99

◆ Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson99

◆ Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art.

- Susan Sontag99

◆ People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.

- W. Somerset Maugham99

◆ I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart99

◆ An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.

- E.A. Bucchianeri99

◆ The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

- Joseph Heller99