(1692 quotes found)
“I like criticism, but it must be my way.”
Mark Twain
“What distinguishes modern art from the art of other ages is criticism.”
Octavio Paz
“To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.”
Elbert Hubbard
“Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.”
Frank A. Clark
“Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.”
William Arthur Ward
“That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography.”
Oscar Wilde
“Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if you're not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.”
Ani Difranco
“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.”
Benjamin Franklin
“I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.”
Winston Churchill
“Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it”
Howard Mumford Jones
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