Critic Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
Critics are like brushers of noble men’s clothes.
George Herbert
Critics as they are birds, have ever a natural inclination to carrion.
Alexander Pope
The generous critic fanned the poet’s fire, and taught the world with reason to admire.
Alexander Pope
The greatest critics among the ancients are those who have most excelled in all other kinds of composition, and have shown the height of good writing even in the precepts which they have given for it.
Joseph Addison
When Jove was from his teeming head
Of wit’s fair goddess brought to bed.
There fellow’s at his lying in
For afterbirth a sooterkin
From hence the critic vermin sprung
With harpy claws and poisonous tongue.
Jonathan Swift
Critics in general are venomous serpents that delight in hissing.
W.B. Daniel
The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth any thing at all.
S. L. Clemens
The genius, even which he endeavours to entertain or instruct, yet suffers persecution from innumerable critics whose acrimony is excited merely by the pain of seeing others pleased, and the hearing applauses when another enjoys.
Samuel Johnson
A fly, sir, may sting a stately horse, and make him wince, but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
Samuel Johnson
A poet that fails in writing becomes often a morose critic. The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.
William Shenstone
Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And beach critic, the good natured man.
Oliver Goldsmith
Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are the most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.
P. B. Shelley
It may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics. Their minds are under the tyranny of ten thousand associations imperceptible to others. The worst writer may easily happen to touch a spring which is connected in their minds with a long succession of beautiful images.
T. B. Macaulay
Insects sting not in malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics, they desire our blood, not our pain.
F. W. Nietzsche
The first duty of an art critic is to hold his tongue at all times, and upon all subjects.
Oscar Wilde
