When we judge or criticize another person, it says nothing about that person; it merely says something about our own need to be critical.
Winston Churchill
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As soon
Seek roses in December--ice in June,
Hope, constancy in wind, or corn in chaff;
Believe a woman or an epitaph,
Or any other thing that's false, before
You trust in critics.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Quotes , Source: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (l. 75)
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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.
William Arthur Ward
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Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
Dale Carnegie
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If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it
Mark Twain
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When I read the rules of criticism, I immediately inquire after
the works of the author who has written them, and by that means
discover what it is he likes in a composition.
Joseph Addison
Quotes , Source: in the "Guardian", no. 115
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He was in Logic, a great critic,
Profoundly skill'd in Analytic;
He could distinguish, and divide
A hair 'twixt south and south-west side.
Samuel Butler (1)
Quotes , Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, l. 65)
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A man must serve his time to every trade
Save censure--critics all are ready made.
Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote,
With just enough of learning to misquote;
A mind well skill'd to find or forge a fault;
A turn for punning, call it Attic salt;
To Jeffrey go, be silent and discreet,
His pay is just ten sterling pounds per sheet;
Fear not to lie, 'twill seem a lucky hit;
Shrink not from blasphemy, 'twill pass for wit;
Care not for feeling--pass your proper jest,
And stand a critic, hated yet caress'd.
Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Quotes , Source: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers (l. 63)
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Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say?
Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason,
In such a state as theirs, is downright treason.
Charles Churchill
Quotes , Source: Apology (l. 94)
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Though by whim, envy, or resentment led,
They damn those authors whom they never read.
Charles Churchill
Quotes , Source: The Candidate (l. 57)
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A servile race
Who, in mere want of fault, all merit place;
Who blind obedience pay to ancient schools,
Bigots to Greece, and slaves to musty rules.
Charles Churchill
Quotes , Source: The Rosciad (l. 183)
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But, spite of all the criticising elves,
Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.
Charles Churchill
Quotes , Source: The Rosciad (l. 961)
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Reviewers are usually people who would have been poets,
historians, biographers, etc., if they could: they have tried
their talents at one or the other, and have failed; therefore
they turn critics.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Quotes , Source: Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton (p. 36)
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Too nicely Jonson knew the critic's part,
Nature in him was almost lost in art.
William Collins
Quotes , Source: Epistle to Sir Thomas Hanmer on his Edition of Shakespeare
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There are come Critics so with Spleen diseased,
They scarcely come inclining to be pleased:
And sure he must have more than mortal Skill,
Who please one against his Will.
William Congreve
Quotes , Source: The Way of the World (epilogue)
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Criticism is easy, and art is difficult.
[Fr., La critique est aisee, et l'art est difficile.]
Phillipe V. Destouches
Quotes , Source: Glorieux (II, 5)
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It is much easier to be critical that to be correct.
Benjamin Disraeli
Quotes , Source: in a speech in the House of Commons
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You know who critics are?--the men who have failed in literature
and art.
Benjamin Disraeli
Quotes , Source: Lothair (ch. XXXV)
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