86 quotes found
“Nature when she invented manufactured and patented her authors contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.”
“To escape criticism - do nothing say nothing be nothing.”
“Any fool can criticize and many of them do.”
“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.”
“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.”
