Criticism Quotes — Page 34

James Russell Lowell

Poet, Essayist

“Comparative criticism teaches us that moral and aesthetic defects are more nearly related than is commonly supposed.”

Criticism Moral Teach

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Poet, Educator

“I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it. I stand in awe of my own opinion. The secret demerits of which we alone, perhaps, are conscious, are often more difficult to bear than those which have been publicly censured in us, and thus in some degree atoned for.”

Secret Criticism Receiving

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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist

“I like criticism, but it must be my way.”

Way Criticism

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Mark Twain

Writer, Humorist

“You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism.”

Pay Criticism

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

“We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.”

Men Book Criticism

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Philosopher, Writer

“We criticize a thinker more acutely when he advances a proposition that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more reasonableto do so when his proposition is agreeable to us.”

Would Be Criticism Criticize

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Jeremiah Wright

Pastor, Author

“I think that criticism is unjustified. It's a cute term, but noone shouldn't be criticized for who he is.”

Thinking Criticism Cute

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John Cage

Composer, Musician

“Composing for the prepared piano is not a criticism of the instrument. I'm only being practical.”

Music Criticism Piano

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John Steinbeck

Novelist, Journalist

“Strength and success; they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it.”

Criticism Morality Seems

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John Steinbeck

Novelist, Journalist

“Strength and success - they are above morality, above criticism. It seems, then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it. Is there a check in men, deep in them, that stops or punishes? There doesn't seem to be. The only punishment is for failure. In effect no crime is committed unless a criminal is caught.”

Men Inspirational Criticism

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John Steinbeck

Novelist, Journalist

“In literary criticism the critic has no choice but to make over the victim of his attention into something the size and shape of himself.”

Choices Attention Criticism

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Jean Cocteau

Poet, Novelist, Playwright

“The public only takes up yesterday as a stick to beat today.”

Today Criticism Yesterday

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