How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Benjamin Disraeli

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.

Dale Carnegie

Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.

Emmet Fox

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

Elvis Presley

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

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, 'I wanna grow up and be a critic.'

Richard Pryor

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

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

H. L. Mencken

Criticism comes easier than craftsmanship.

Zeuxis

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

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

I find that the very things that I get criticized for, which is usually being different and just doing my own thing and just being original, is the very thing that's making me successful.

Shania Twain

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

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

Franklin P. Jones

We protest against unjust criticism, but we accept unearned applause.

Jose Narosky

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

Kurt Vonnegut

Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!

Jean Sibelius

One cannot review a bad book without showing off.

W. H. Auden

Never criticize your spouse's faults; if it weren't for them, your mate might have found someone better than you.

Jay Trachman

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

Elbert Hubbard

No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.

Harold Rosenberg

Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.

Native American Proverb

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

The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not.

Edward Albee

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

Emile M. Cioran

The most destructive criticism is indifference.

Edgar Watson Howe

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Katharine Hepburn

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.

John Wooden

Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

Alan Jay Lerner

Just a lot of criticism and pessimism.

Caspar W. Weinberger

I feel vindicated in my criticism of the reforms.

Dirk Niebel

I don't think you're a very good friend if you're always being supportive. You also have to add criticism.

Jason Kottke

We expect criticism. That's just fine.

Paul Kocin

The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

William Gilmore Simms

This [language and criticism] is unbecoming of the president of Syria.

Walid Jumblatt

Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.

Charles Buxton

I don't react to criticism from outside the camp, I react to a pretty awful performance.

Phil Larder

He only profits from praise who values criticism.

Heinrich Heine

It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.

Alfred Whitney Griswold

Most criticism of advertising is written in ignorance of what actually happens inside these agencies.

Michael Schudson

Wise parents offer criticism only when asked, and then minimally.

Leonard Roy Frank

This isn't a response to criticism. This is a response to what I see on the field.

Randy Sanders

People say this is disgusting and I accept that criticism.

Paul Sharratt

We have a close family. If you are willing to put up with that - which so far I have been - (the criticism) won't bother you.

Jeff Bowden

We return phone calls. The biggest criticism of lawyers is that they don't return phone calls. I will return it the same day.

Stephen Ure

Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

Karl Popper

To us, it was a clear example to cut off criticism of the government.

Alan Schlosser

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

William Phillips

That's the biggest criticism you could have.

Jim Mudd

He will find it impossible to change the terms of the agreement without attracting serious criticism and charges of selling out to the US.

Achin Vanaik

We're more open with each other. We're really responsive to criticism.

Sgt. Barrett Dilley

To love without criticism is to be betrayed.

Djuna Barnes

I'm very critical of J.R., but with a lot of constructive criticism.

Curtis Staples

There is no criticism of Dan. I just needed my own person.

Bob Castellini

So they really think... serious criticism of evolution is a joke.

Kathy Martin

The worst censors are those prohibiting criticism of the theory of evolution in the classroom.

Phyllis Schlafly

If the African Union is to have a strong voice it has to foster constructive criticism, not bury it.

Reed Brody

Somehow I took whatever criticism there was very much to heart.

Dusty Springfield

I can take any amount of criticism as long as I can consider it unqualified praise.

Noel Coward

I think that would have been a fair criticism that would have had more weight if it came a month ago.

Lenny Alcivar

It's hard to take criticism like this when you're out here doing the best that you can.

Nancy Dowdy

China is the most conspicuous target for American protectionist criticism that it is destroying U.S. jobs.

Yasuhide Yajima

A weak attempt to silence growing investor criticism.

Carl Icahn

We've already received a ton of criticism.

Rick Muntean

The FDA commissioner's job is to absorb and deflect criticism of the agency ... Crawford failed that test.

Ira Loss

The thing I like is there?s as much bad criticism as there is good.

John Olson

There are floods of praise coming in as well as criticism.

Edmund Morris