A literary critic is a person who finds meaning in literature that the author didn't know was there

The strength of criticism lies only in the weakness of the thing criticized

You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing

The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write

I'll write, because I'll give - You critics means to live; For should I not supply - The cause, the effect would die

I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance

Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger

We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of cr

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find