Quotes with critics

  • It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence that they should write entertainingly about something which is rarely worth writing about at all.
  • Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
  • As far as critics, I'm not a hip guy. I was never on drugs. Nobody ever felt sorry for me 'cause I went straight or found God. I always had God. I've always like, played by the rules.
  • Bullfighting is every bit as ghoulish and savage as its critics warn, but it is equally as powerful and moving as its supporters insist. Perhaps the most vexing aspect about it is that neither group is wrong: they are both telling the truth.
  • Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
  • Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
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  • Bobby Vinton As far as critics, I'm not a hip guy. I was never on drugs. Nobody ever felt sorry for me 'cause I went straight or found God. I always had God. I've always like, played by the rules.
    Bobby Vinton
    American singer and songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Jonathan Swift If men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Christopher Hampton Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
    Christopher Hampton
    British playwright (1946 - )
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  • Dustin Hoffman A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.
    Dustin Hoffman
    American actor and director (1937 - )
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  • Lord George Byron A man must serve his time to every trade save censure - critics all are ready made.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Edith Wharton 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
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Gregory Nunn All the world's a stage, and all the clergymen critics.
    Gregory Nunn
    American golf player (1955 - )
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  • Christopher Hampton Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
    Christopher Hampton
    British playwright (1946 - )
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  • Lord George Byron Believe a woman or an epitaph,
    Or any other thing that's false, before
    You trust in critics, who themselves are sore.
    English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers (1809)
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Bullfighting is every bit as ghoulish and savage as its critics warn, but it is equally as powerful and moving as its supporters insist. Perhaps the most vexing aspect about it is that neither group is wrong: they are both telling the truth.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
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  • Carolyn Coats Children have more need of models than of critics
    Carolyn Coats
    American educator and author (1939 - )
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  • Joseph Joubert Children need models rather than critics.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Bob Dylan Come writers and critics
    Who prophesize with your pen
    And keep your eyes wide
    The chance won't come again
    And don't speak too soon
    For the wheel's still in spin
    And there's no tellin' who that it's naming.'
    For the loser now will be later to win
    The Times They Are A-Changin (1964)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Barack Obama Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Cosmopolitan critics, men who are the friends of every country save their own.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Lord George Byron Critics are already made.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Brendan Behan 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.
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Bjorn Ulvaeus Critics used to say that ABBA were formulaic or that our songs were rubbish. We never had time for those comments, though. We were sincere and devoted to what we did.
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
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