Theodore Roosevelt Quotes, Criticism Quotes, Important Quotes

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else.

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Valid criticism does you a favor.

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

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Critics are already made.

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

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Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.

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When strict with oneself, one rarely fails.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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Imitation is criticism.

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Isolation in creative work is an onerous thing. Better to have negative criticism than nothing at all.

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Blame is safer than praise

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Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these?

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