Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Arden

Do not seek praise. Seek criticism.

Paul Ricoeur

Beyond the desert of criticism, we wish to be called again.

Mark Batterson

Nine times out of 10, criticism is a defense mechanism. We criticize in others what we don't like in ourselves.

Publilius Syrus

It is folly to censure him whom all the world adores.

Noam Chomsky

Expressing criticism of society is not being a grouch.

Noam Chomsky

There is no body of theory or significant body of relevant information, beyond the comprehension of the layman, which makes policy immune from criticism.

Margaret Thatcher

I wouldn't be worth my salt if I weren't attracting some controversy and criticism. Everyone in the world who has done something in life has attracted criticism.

L. Frank Baum

As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults.

Pablo Picasso

It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own.

Oscar Wilde

All criticism is a form of autobiography

Melanie Lynskey

I read every single review, because I love film criticism and I'm interested.

Mark Twain

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

Marvin J. Ashton

Constant criticism can wear one down and weaken knees.

Mark Twain

You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism.

P. Chidambaram

Criticism of a policy is welcome. But in the garb of criticizing a policy, if you allege that the policy was made for corrupt purposes, I reject it.

Paul Scholes

I don't like compliments. No. I prefer criticisms; prefer to prove them wrong

Michel de Montaigne

We every day and every hour say things of another that we might more properly say of ourselves, could we but apply our observations to our own concerns.

Michel de Montaigne

Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.

Mark Twain

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.

Mark Twain

I like criticism, but it must be my way.

Marilyn Manson

Marilyn Manson is a criticism of gimmickry, while being itself a gimmick.

Chris Martin

Sometimes we have criticism that is very constructive.

George Santayana

To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.

Norm MacDonald

If you cannot patiently bear correction, endeavor to avoid fault.

Noel Coward

Criticism and Bolshevism have one thing in common. They both seek to pull down that which they could never build.

Terry Gross

Donald Trump's hair frankly. Sometimes you know you're going to get criticism, but you just have to take .

Sri Chinmoy

How to overcome destructive criticism? Just love a little more. That's all.

Robert W. Service

I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.

Robert Pattinson

I can't deal with criticism very well. I've already got it from one angle. I don't need it from anything else.

Walter Lippmann

Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation.

Winston Churchill

I have benefited greatly from criticism, and at no time have I suffered a lack thereof.

William Gilmore Simms

The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

Wesley Morris

I like Nora Ephron. She wasn't a critic in the strictest sense of the word, but she did a lot of social criticism. She was so funny and so in the right place at the right time.