Critics Quotes
It is not expected of critics that they should help us to make sense of our lives they are bound only to attempt the lesser feat of making sense of the ways we try to make sense of our lives.
His words leap across rivers and mountains but his thoughts are still only six inches long.
The factor in human life provocative of a noble discontent is the gradual emergence of a sense of criticism founded upon appreciation of beauty and of intellectual distinction and of duty.
To many people dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.
The test of a good critic is whether he knows when and how to believe on insufficient evidence.
If you are willing to take the punishment you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial the battle ugly is another point.
Nature fits all her children with something to do He who would write and can't write can surely review.
Nature when she invented manufactured and patented her authors contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
Critics are like eunuchs in a harem: they know how it's done they've seen it done every day but they're unable to do it themselves.
I am sitting in the smallest room in my house. I have your review in front of me. Soon it will be behind me.
Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world tho' the cant of hypocrites may be the worst the cant of criticism is the most tormenting.
The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights actors and audiences - a figure dreaded and occasionally comic but never welcome never loved.