Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
-H. L. Mencken
Criticism is the art of appraising others
at one's own value.
-George Jean Nathan
When we condemn other people,
we generally indirectly mean to flatter ourselves.
-John S. Blackie
Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
-Emmet Fox
The condemnation of an error is another error.
-Antonio Porchia
Perfect integrity is not critical of others.
-Chuang-tzu
Criticizing another's garden
doesn't keep the weeds out of your own.
-Italian Proverb
Criticism often takes from the tree
caterpillars and blossoms together.
-Johann Paul Friedrich Richter
The pain of hearing a criticism
is largely due to its accuracy.
-Harville Hendrix
It is a barren kind of criticism
which tells you what a thing is not.
-Rufus Wilmot Griswold
Criticism, like rain,
should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth
without destroying his roots.
-Frank A. Clark
Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish,
wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award -
these are the true aims and duties of criticism.
-William Gilmore Simms
I am bound by my own definition of criticism:
a disinterested endeavor to learn and propagate
the best that is known and thought in the world.
-Matthew Arnold
