Criticism Quotes

"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

"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

"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

"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 comes easier than craftsmanship."
-Zeuxis

"Criticism is prejudice made plausible."
-H. L. Mencken

"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

"We protest against unjust criticism, but we accept unearned applause."
-Jose Narosky

"People ask for criticism, but they only want praise."
-W. Somerset Maugham

"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

"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

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

"One cannot review a bad book without showing off."
-W. H. Auden

"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

"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