372 quotes found
“Never expect to be accepted without criticism. Never forget to appreciate.”
“A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires h...”
“Once in a golden hour I cast to earth a seed. Up there came a flower, The people said, a weed.”
“I take criticism so seriously as to believe that, even in the midst of a battle in which one is unmistakably on one side against another, there should be criticism, because there must be critical c...”
“When someone offers you lines like that, he must be Mephistopheles and you must be Faust. You know you shouldn't succumb to such language, but you succumb.”
“In their effort to divorce language and experience, deconstructionist critics remind me of middle-class parents who do not allow their children to play in the street.”
“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”
“A Hillary Clinton presidency would symbolically break the glass ceiling for women in the United States, but it would be unlikely to break through the military-industrial complex that has been keepi...”
“The right to choose to abort a fetus is critical, as is the ability to effect that choice in real life, so it's great that Hillary Clinton wants to repeal the Hyde Amendment. But without welfare, s...”
“Feminism's failings do not mean we should eschew feminism entirely. People do terrible things all the time, but we don't regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things. We should dis...”
“I don't know that we are actually human at this point, those of us who are like most of us, who grew up with TV and movies and now the Internet. If we are betrayed, we know the words to say; when a...”
“This mannerism of what he'd seen of society struck Homer Wells quite forcefully; people, even nice peoplebecause, surely, Wally was nicewould say a host of critical things about someone to whom the...”
“The price of success is to bear the criticism of envy.”
“An author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an animal whom every body is privileged to attack: for though all are not able to write books, all conceive themselves able to judge them.”
“Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied.”
“Yes, I hate orthodox criticism. I don't mean great criticism, like that of Matthew Arnold and others, but the usual small niggling, fussy-mussy criticism, which thinks it can improve people by tell...”
“Theres one kind of writing thats always easy: Picking out something obviously stupid and reiterating how stupid it obviously is. This is the lowest form of criticism, easily accomplished by anyone....”
“[A] writers most powerful weapon, his true strength, was his intuition, and regardless of whether he had any talent, if the critics combined to discredit an authors nose for things, he would be red...”
“Context is everything in both narrative and real life, and while the accusation is never that these creators deliberately set out to discriminate against gay and female characters, the unavoidable ...”
“Dont deceive yourself; laughing at someones weakness is not the way to reveal your strength. Your strength is in the help you offer, not the mockeries you deliver!”
