Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Men Quotes, Criticism Quotes

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.

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Either criticism is no good at all (a very defensible position) or else criticism means saying about an author the very things that would have made him jump out of his boots.

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To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.

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If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings!

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I'm not saying I'm impervious to criticism.

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Valid criticism does you a favor.

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To my eye Rubens' colouring is most contemptible. His shadows are a filthy brown somewhat the colour of excrement.

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What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but absence of self-criticism.

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All criticism is a form of autobiography

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Criticism? An artist wants praise. Praise.

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We resent all criticism which denies us anything that lies in our line of advance.

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Criticism is painful when it's not done with love.

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O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a letter of criticism I swear I will write for my own praise or blame in future. It is a misery.

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Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.

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But what help from these fineries or pedantries? What help from thought? Life is not dialectics. We, I think, in these times, have had lessons enough of the futility of criticism.

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Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism.

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I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it.

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And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.

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I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new; While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.

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Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.

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