Alexander Pope Quotes, Light Quotes, Criticism Quotes

And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.

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Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.

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

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

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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.

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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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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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In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.

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When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

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

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

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

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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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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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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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Imitation is criticism.

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I’ve heard it said that Daisy’s murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an irrelevant criticism that made it no less charming.

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

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Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.

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

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