#critic

The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#beautiful things #being #criticizing #feel #moved

I don't want ever to be guilty of what my critics claim: doing formula without original elements. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#critics #doing #elements #ever #formula

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#conditions #criticism #fixed #laws #life

Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#attention #criticism #down #feel #haven

Give no time to finding fault of criticism. ↗

— Marvin J. Ashton

#fault #finding #give #time

To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#freedom #irrational #manifestly #person #race

If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#criticism #discipline #existing #get #must

The completion of the Iraqi cabinet with the appointment of three critical ministers is also confirmation of continued movement toward a just and democratic society in Iraq. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#appointment #cabinet #completion #confirmation #continued

Starting with the hypothesis that all the characters in Women in Love suffer from acute dissociation of sensibility, it becomes clear that psychological reintegration is no longer possible for them, and complete divorce between reason and emotion, mind and body, is imminent. As a result, the characters become mental or physical in basic nature and are symbolically presented accordingly. ↗

— John E. Stoll

#love

We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent - criticism. ↗

— Frank A. Clark

#different #different things #generous #like #money