(1786 quotes found)
“Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land, And don't criticize What you can't understand”
Bob Dylan
“I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.”
Henry David Thoreau
“If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.”
Malcolm X
“A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded”
Tyne Daly
“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
“The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not”
Edward Albee
“If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.”
Katharine Hepburn
“Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.”
Henry Steele Commager
“When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.”
Winston Churchill
“Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!”
Arthur Rimbaud