Criticism Quotes

When a man spends his time giving his wife criticism and advice instead of compliments, he forgets that it was not his good judgment, but his charming manners, that won her heart.

We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent - criticism.

Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view clear.

My favorite laser disk ever was the laser disk for The Graduate, which had a commentary track that wasn't even the filmmakers, it was a professor, some film criticism guy who just happen to be this amazing commentator who went off into the whole theory of comedy.

We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization for our work, and that is a difficult role. On the other hand, I get undue credit.

It feels like the more I'm out there in the public eye, the more criticism I get. You need to have confidence - that's what it takes to walk out there and sing a song in front of a huge group of people.

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.

If you can't fully believe in your ideas, it very quickly communicates to a group of actors who need something to hold onto. They need to believe that whatever criticism, whatever comment is received, is meant.

I don't take criticism lying down.

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.

To silence criticism is to silence freedom.

The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic.

A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

It's everywhere, constant criticism of women's appearance in magazines and online. It's not easy to navigate.

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

I believe in criticism.

Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but rather a calm, rational, even conversational voice.

That does not mean that we must forego just and fair criticism, or refrain from opposition to policies which are debatable or which do not command our approval.

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

There has certainly been criticism of the timing involved in getting help to the victims of the storm, and much of it may indeed be warranted. However, this is not the time for pointing fingers; rather, it is the time for offering a helping hand to our neighbors in need.

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.

If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.

Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.

How do I respond to criticism? Critically. I listen to all criticism critically.

I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me.

Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.

What has bothered and angered radical Muslims is that I'm a non-Muslim writing anything at all about Islam. But this is fiction, and I don't think Islam is above criticism or fictionalization any more so than Judaism, Christianity, Mormonism or Hinduism is.

Self criticism must be my guide to action, and the first rule for its employment is that in itself it is not a virtue, only a procedure.