Alexander Pope Quotes, Kissing Quotes, Criticism Quotes

Did some more sober critics come abroad? If wrong, I smil'd; if right, I kiss'd the rod.

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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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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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There is a difference between responsible criticism that aims for success and defeatism that refuses to acknowledge anything but failure. Hindsight alone is not wisdom, and second-guessing is not a strategy.

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

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Taking to pieces is the trade of those who cannot construct.

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All criticism is a form of autobiography

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

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

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There is a difference between responsible criticism that aims for success and defeatism that refuses to acknowledge anything but failure. Hindsight alone is not wisdom, and second-guessing is not a strategy.

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

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Were I wrong, one professor would have been enough.

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Critics are already made.

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Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach.

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Everything is bilateral in the domain of thought. Ideas are binary. Janus is the myth of criticism and the symbol of genius. Only God is triangular!

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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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No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews.

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A louse in the locks of literature.

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