Quotes about Critique

No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.

She had influenced him more than any person he had ever known. And always in this way coming before him without his wishing it, cool, ladylike, critical; or ravishing, romantic.

A most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others.

A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.

A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book.

Nowadays, it has become a custom to criticise the BJP for everything.

and he also told me that I should rethink submitting my thesis. He read your thesis. He read three different drafts of it, actually. Did he understand it? Pretty much. He understood what was wrong with it. And that was? That nobody could understand it.

It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art.

Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

My dear fellow, the way you flirt with Gwendolen is perfectly disgraceful. It is almost as disgraceful as the way Gwendolen flirts with you.

Isn't it much easier to listen to self-criticism than to bear condemnation from alien lips?

For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you."12