Critics Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker 111 despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) English poet
Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics of the chips that were left.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) American writer, hysician
A louse in the locks of literature.
Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) English poet of f. Churton Collins
A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.
Whitney Ballict (b. 1926) American writer
It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality … who spent his whole life appraising and describing the work of other men.
H. L Mencken (1880-1956) American journalist
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs.
Christopher Hampton (b. 1946) British playwright
As long as there are readers to be delighted with calumny, there will be found reviewers to calumniate.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) English Poet
I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, They damn those authors whom they never read.
Charles Churchill (1731-1764) English clergyman, poet
I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices one so.
Sydney Smith (1771-1845) English writer, clergyman
There are two kinds of dramatic critics: destructive and constructive. I am a destructive. There are two kinds of guns: Krupp and pop.
George Jean Nathan (1882-1958) American critic
A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.
Kenneth Tynan (1927-1980) British critic
Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930) British author
What we ask of him is that he should find out for us more than we can find out for ourselves.
Arthur Symons (1865-1945) English poet, critic
A man must serve his time to every trade Save censure —critics all are ready made.
