Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Men Quotes, Criticism Quotes

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

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

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Imitation is criticism.

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Don’t criticize them; they are just what we would be under similar circumstances.

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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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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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Criticism is painful when it's not done with love.

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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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Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak.

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I'm not saying I'm impervious to criticism.

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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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A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned.

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I like criticism, but it must be my way.

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Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.

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

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

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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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