criticism quotes

I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don’t think it’s good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You’re not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I’m going to emerge then submerge.

If you can’t tolerate critics, don’t do anything new or interesting.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

People in Latin America… love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

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

After the first International Days of Protest in October, 1965, Senator Mansfield criticized the ‚sense of utter irresponsibility‘ shown by the demonstrators.

It’s much worse to read criticism about your son than yourself.

No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

Plato was a bore.

I find it amusing that I’m on the Internet now, because I’ve criticized it, but mainly I’ve criticized it on the basis of, ‚What are you going to do with it?‘

I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.

A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.

There’s plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics. You can’t duplicate that on blogs.

I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.

When I was a kid, I had a tendency to criticize. But when I did, my mum would whisk me off to the bathroom to stand in front of a mirror. Ten minutes, never less. To think about how criticism is a poor reflection on the one who criticizes.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art.

The problem with Yanks is they are wimps.

Whenever a high-profile leader dies, people immediately attempt to summarize that person’s life in a sentence. Often, critics and commentators get caught up looking at the leader’s style, or which political or philosophical camp they represented.

Sometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.

I tend not to like an awful lot of what is going out under my name now because it is just all product. Who needs it?

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.

I don’t think it’s a good advert for any restaurant, a fat chef, and secondly, who wants to eat a dessert when the chef’s a fat pig.

The last person I have ever criticized is an official. They have a tough job to do. Things are happening so quick.

My biggest criticism is how can people be so easily satisfied? Even people with talent.

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

The President is always abused. If he isn’t, he isn’t doing anything.

For people who may think they know, or have snippets of who I am, you can attack that person. That’s part of being a public figure.

There’s backlash about everything I do.

I think it’s a myth that American public or any other public is so stupid that they need to be constantly pricked.

Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.

I’ve had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, ‚Your music sucks, you don’t know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don’t know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.‘

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

I think the 24-hour news cycle has helped exaggerate the differences between the parties. You can always find someone on TV somewhere carping about something. That didn’t happen 20 years ago.

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

It’s not difficult for me to put my feelings into written form. I try to be concise and to go direct to the subject. This is what people like about my work, and what the critics hate.

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

I don’t like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can’t do it.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

It never bothered me when people would say, ‚You only win championships because you’re playing with Shaq.‘ It bothered me when he said it.

I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person’s enemies say about him.

From my close observation of writers… they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review.

I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.

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.

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

He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.

I don’t feel I’ve had a decent critic ever on the East coast.

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he’s no longer God… They’ll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything.