“I love criticism as long as it is unqualified praise.” — Noël Coward, “Noel Coward a ‘Blithe Spirit’–in Sunny Jamaica,” The Des Moines Register (1956-01-08)
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“Never demean yourself by talking back to a critic, never.” — Truman Capote, The Art of Fiction No. 17, the Paris Review (Spring-Summer 1957)
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“Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.” — Herman Melville, Poor Man’s Pudding and Rich Man’s Crumbs
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“I am more the inspirational type of speller. I work on hunches rather than mere facts, and the result is sometimes open to criticism by purists.” — Robert Benchley, “Rule of Thumb,” My Ten Years in a Quandary, and How They Grew
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“The moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible.” — Salman Rushdie, “Do we have to fight the battle for the Enlightenment all over again?,” The Independent (2005-01-22)
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“Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard such departures as a criticism of themselves.” — Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
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“It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.” — Benjamin Disraeli, debate in answer to the Queen’s speech (1860-01-24)
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“Men are prone to imagine that because some of the censure they receive is unmerited, it is all unjustly bestowed.” — Edward Owings Towne, Aphorisms of the Three Threes
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“I stand in awe of my own opinion. The secret demerits of which we alone, perhaps, are conscious, are often more difficult to bear than those which have been publicly censured in us, and thus in some degree atoned for.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh
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“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.” — Theodore Roosevelt, “Citizenship in a Republic,” Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, France, April 23, 1910
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