Famous Quotes & Sayings

Victoria Woodhull

I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.

Victor Hugo

I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.

Robert Benchley

I am more the inspirational type of speller. I work on hunches rather than mere facts, and the result is sometimes open to criticism by purists.

Richard E. Grant

Time and time again I was told that I would never make the film on time and never make it on budget. That kind of criticism tends to turn me into a great big motor of efficiency.

Thomas Sadoski

Criticism is something that you have to take, regardless of what you do.

Rose Tremain

Listen to the criticisms and preferences of your trusted 'first readers.'

Robert Pattinson

I can't deal with criticism very well. I've already got it from one angle. I don't need it from anything else.

Stephen Daldry

It's disingenuous to say that criticism doesn't get to you or you don't hear it or that you ignore it. When everybody says, 'That's crap. I hated that,' you hear it. But it's much, much worse when they're right: when you feel that it is an absolute piece of tosh. I made the film I wanted to make, so you just have to find a way of getting over it.

Susie Orbach

Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.

Susanna Clarke

you must learn to live as I do - in the face of constant criticism, opposition and censure. That, sir, is the English way.

Tony Kushner

Theater really gets damaged when there is a paucity of good criticism around.

Steven Johnson

Most of the time, criticism that takes pop culture seriously involves performing some kind of symbolic analysis, decoding the work to demonstrate the way it represents some other aspect of society.

Steve Martin

Reviews for someone like me come in three packages. One is justifiable praise, the second is justifiable criticism, and the third is, "This is only published because he's a celebrity."

Simon Cowell

It was like orderin a hamburger and getting only the buns

Shirley Manson

It's everywhere, constant criticism of women's appearance in magazines and online. It's not easy to navigate.

James M. Cain

Time is the only critic.

Thomas B. Macaulay

In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.

Steve Vai

Criticism can be devastating. When push comes to shove, we are all very sensitive.

Karl Kraus

A pun, though despicable in itself, can be the noblest vehicle of an artistic intention by serving as the abbreviation of a wittyview. It can be a social criticism in the form of an epigram.

Sara Sheridan

The net has provided a level playing field for criticism and comment - anyone and everyone is entitled to their opinion - and that is one of its greatest strengths.

Samuel Johnson

Sir, there is no end of negative criticism.

William Blake

Imitation is criticism.

Wayne Thiebaud

We all need critical confrontation of the fullest and most extreme kind that we can get. You can unnecessarily limit yourself by choosing your criticism...

Walter Lippmann

Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation.

Winston Churchill

I have benefited greatly from criticism, and at no time have I suffered a lack thereof.

William Gilmore Simms

The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

Wesley Morris

I like Nora Ephron. She wasn't a critic in the strictest sense of the word, but she did a lot of social criticism. She was so funny and so in the right place at the right time.

W. H. Auden

Criticism should be a casual conversation.

Roger Ebert

Praise without merit is more harmful than unearned criticism.

Robert M. Gates

One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

Yolanda Adams

You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.

W. Somerset Maugham

But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.

Robert J. Flaherty

Singleton has an almost uncanny ability to resist being caught up in the fads and fancies of the moment. Like most great innovators [and investors! - Ed.], Henry Singleton is supremely indifferent to criticism.