Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain—and most fools do.
—Dale Carnegie
In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.
—George Orwell
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
—Winston Churchill
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
—Kurt Vonnegut
The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.
—William Faulkner
If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
—Donald H. Rumsfeld
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
—Christopher Hampton
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
—Edgar Wilson Nye
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
—Winston Churchill
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
—Benjamin Disraeli
After all, one knows one's weak points so well, that it's rather bewildering to have the critics overlook them and invent others.
—Edith Wharton
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
—Elbert Hubbard
Do what you feel in your heart to be right—for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
—Eleanor Roosevelt
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
—Franklin P. Jones
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
—H. L. Mencken