Alexander Pope Quotes, Law Quotes, Criticism Quotes

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

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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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Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

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I want no criticism of America at my table. The Americans criticize themselves more than enough.

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Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.

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Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.

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

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Personal abuse is no substitute for policy. It signals panic.

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There is a difference between responsible criticism that aims for success and defeatism that refuses to acknowledge anything but failure. Hindsight alone is not wisdom, and second-guessing is not a strategy.

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When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

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All criticism is a form of autobiography

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Blame is safer than praise

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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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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Men Quotes , Criticism Quotes

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

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

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Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct.

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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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