Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Power Quotes, Criticism Quotes

It is the beginning of all true criticism of our time to realize that it has really nothing to say, at the very moment when it has invented so tremendous a trumpet for saying it.

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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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When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

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Were I wrong, one professor would have been enough.

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Surely Islam has nothing to fear from criticism even if it be unreasonable.

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

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Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.

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A louse in the locks of literature.

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The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

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If a man is often the subject of conversation he soon becomes the subject of criticism.

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Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!

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When strict with oneself, one rarely fails.

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I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it. I stand in awe of my own opinion. The secret demerits of which we alone, perhaps, are conscious, are often more difficult to bear than those which have been publicly censured in us, and thus in some degree atoned for.

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He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.

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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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The sceptic will say, 'It may well be true that this system of equations is reasonable from a logical standpoint, but this does not prove that it corresponds to nature.' You are right, dear sceptic. Experience alone can decide on truth.

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Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected.

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

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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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If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it.

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