Mark Twain Quotes, Criticism Quotes, Bears Quotes

It is the will of God that we must have critics, and missionaries, and Congressmen, and humorists, and we must bear the burden. Meantime, I seem to have been drifting into criticism myself. But that is nothing. At the worst, criticism is nothing more than a crime, and I am not unused to that.

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

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Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.

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Valid criticism does you a favor.

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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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Criticism? An artist wants praise. Praise.

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In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

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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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All criticism is a form of autobiography

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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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We criticize a thinker more acutely when he advances a proposition that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more reasonableto do so when his proposition is agreeable to us.

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Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.

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One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself

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

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Imitation is criticism.

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I like criticism, but it must be my way.

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An artist must only judge of what he understands, his field is just as limited as that of any other specialist... That in his sphere there are no questions, but only answers, can only be maintained by those who have never written and have had no experience of thinking in images.

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Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.

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If you criticize a fine genius, the odds are that you are out of your reckoning, and, instead of the poet, are censuring your owncaricature of him.

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Blame is safer than praise

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