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Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman
say you've got a pretty neck.?
- Eli Wallach
I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. In
a moment it shall be behind me.
- Max Reger, letter to critic Rudolph Louis
A great deal of contemporary criticism reads to me like a man saying: `Of course
I do not like green cheese: I am very fond of brown sherry.'
- C.K. Chesterton
If you hear that someone is speaking ill of you, instead of trying to defend
yourself you should say: `He obviously does not know me very well, since there
are so many other faults he could have mentioned'.
- Epictetus
A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.
- George Bernard Shaw
Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term
of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which
seems to differ from their moral concepts.
- Ernest Hemingway
Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in
honor of a critic.
- Jean Sibelius
God created the poet, then took a handful of the rubbish that left and made
three critics.
- T.J. Thomas
Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to
make critics out of the chips that were left.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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