How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. Benjamin Disraeli
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do. Dale Carnegie
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes. Elvis Presley
Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count. Mariah Carey
If critics have problems with my personal life, it's their problem. Anybody with half a brain would realize that it's the charts that count.
Criticism is prejudice made plausible. H. L. Mencken
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs. Robert Hughes
One gets tired of the role critics are supposed to have in this culture: It's like being the piano player in a whorehouse; you don't have any control over the action going on upstairs.
Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism. Paul A. Samuelson
Self-deception ultimately explains Japan's plight. The Japanese have never accepted that change is in their interest - and not merely a response to U.S. criticism.
After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others. Edith Wharton
After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. Franklin P. Jones
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. W. Somerset Maugham
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and ninety percent gall and egomania in equal parts. Judith Crist
To be a critic, you have to have maybe three percent education, five percent intelligence, two percent style, and ninety percent gall and egomania in equal parts.
Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic! Jean Sibelius
Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!
One cannot review a bad book without showing off. W. H. Auden
One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. Elbert Hubbard
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating. Harold Rosenberg
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins. Native American Proverb
Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.
Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are. Henry Fielding
Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves. Emile M. Cioran
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
The most destructive criticism is indifference. Edgar Watson Howe
The most destructive criticism is indifference.
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