Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes, Mind Quotes, Criticism Quotes

Critics kind never mind! Critics flatter no matter! Critics blame all the same! Do your best damn the rest!

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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.

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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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... if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us to break her and bullyher, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured.

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

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

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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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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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Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.

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A louse in the locks of literature.

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A louse in the locks of literature.

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

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

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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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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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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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Valid criticism does you a favor.

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