#critic

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender. ↗

— Jim Bishop

#bartender #book #critic #drunk #good

Art is parasitic on life, just as criticism is parasitic on art. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#criticism #just #life #parasitic

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press. ↗

— Hugo Black

#criticism #embraces #finds #free #free speech

I criticize my own work pretty harshly. ↗

— Ritchie Blackmore

#harshly #i #my own #own #pretty

Every time I make a picture the critics' estimate of American public taste goes down ten percent. ↗

— Cecil B. DeMille

#american public #critics #down #estimate #every

When we criticize in Iran the actions of the government, the fundamentalists say that we and the Bush Administration are in the same camp. The funny thing is that human rights activists and Mr. Bush can never be situated in the same group. ↗

— Shirin Ebadi

#activists #administration #bush #bush administration #camp

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment. ↗

— George Eliot

#affection #altogether #attachment #faults #heaven

I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years. ↗

— Albert Ellis

#articles #criticizing #finally #i #listening

One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for. ↗

— Euripides

#called #console #critical #critical time #deeds

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still. ↗

— Frederick William Faber

#also #being #criticisms #deal #deeds