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
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
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
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 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
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