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Flattery is praise insincerely given for an interested purpose.

Foolishness and criticism are so apt, do so naturally go together!

Fools take criticism and dish it back. The wise take it and turn it to their advantage.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Forbid that I should judge others, lest I condemn myself.

For every action there’s a reaction. And also, for every action there’s an equal and opposite criticism.

For every achievement, there is a critic to devalue its worth.

For many years I have devoted articles and essays to newspapers, from the inside. So criticism of the newspapers was a topic that I practiced for a long time.

For months, Republican Party leaders have been talking about the need to unify the GOP, in part because of Donald Trump and his criticism of the establishment, which created such big divides.

For me, there is only one means of ensuring that I do not lose respect for myself: constant criticism.

For most of us even the imagined threat of criticism functions to control our behavior. We are haunted to some degree by questions about our self-worth. As a consequence, we continually attempt to prove to ourselves and others that we are okay people, credible, trustworthy, and competent.

For the critic, criticism is a form of natural self-expression, as poetry is to the poet. So, for a critic, criticism is a true thing. Criticism isn’t written for poets, it’s written for other readers. One hopes it is true for other readers if it’s true for oneself.

For those suggesting criticisms of drone kills should wait until the election: that'd be reasonable if he stops killing until the election.

Frankly, it's good enough to lock up in a drawer.

Fortunately for me, I know well enough what I want, and am basically utterly indifferent to the criticism that I work to hurriedly. In answer to that, I have done some things even more hurriedly theses last few days.

Four D's of Disconnection: 1. Diagnosis (judgment, analysis, criticism, comparison); 2. Denial of Responsibility; 3. Demand; 4. 'Deserve' oriented language.

Fox News is nothing if not impressive. No matter how harsh the criticism it endures, the network somehow always manages to prove itself even worse than we had previously imagined.

Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.

George W. Bush will not offer one word of criticism for any president. Not Clinton. Not Obama.

Go ahead and voice your criticisms, but don't expect to be invited back.

He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Healthy, well-informed, balanced criticism is the ozone of public life.

Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy.

Great critics do not explicate a text; they describe it and then report on what they have described, if the description itself is not the criticism.

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

[He] seems to want it both ways: the freedom to hold and express beliefs, and immunity from criticism for those beliefs. This is the kind of attitude that leads inexorably to totalitarianism. It is to be decried, particularly in a university environment where the search for truth necessitates that no belief be treated as sacred or above scrutiny.

He who slings mud generally loses ground.

He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

Hillary Clinton is receiving criticism after telling a crowd to 'unlock their full potential,' because that line is commonly used by another possible candidate, Carly Fiorina. People said, 'You can't just steal someone's slogan like that!' And Hillary said, 'Yes we can!'

Hollywood movies of the Fifties, like The Ten Commandments and Ben-Hur, with their epic clash of pagan and Judeo-Christian cultures, tell more about art and society than the French-infatuated ideologues who have made a travesty of the "best" American higher criticism.

Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry.

Homeopathy is insignificant as an act of healing, but of great value as criticism on the hygeia or medical practice of the time.

Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.

Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.

How many people would like to get up in a social prayer-meeting to say a few words for Christ, but there is such a cold spirit of criticism in the church that they dare not do it.

However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not a part of me, but a spectator, sharing no experience, but taking note of it, and that is no more I than it is you. When the lay, it may be the tragedy, of life is over, the spectator goes his way. It was a kind of fiction, a work of the imagination only, so far as he was concerned.

How to overcome destructive criticism? Just love a little more. That's all.

I agree that one can't dispense with the reins and the whip altogether, for knaves find their way even into literature, but no thinking will discover a better police for literature than the critics and the author's own conscience.

Human intellect is natures attempt at self criticism

I also encourage my students to read literary criticism that is deeply personal yet formally inventive and intellectually expansive... books that offer unorthodox ways of doing double duty as literary criticism and as love letters to the power of literature per se.

I always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don't have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.

I always have done work on mythic relations since I started writing. I really want to be a novelist, or at least a writer of imaginative work... I do try to make my critical studies imaginative and try to write them in ways that are more like literature than philosophy, but I have disappointed myself because I am still so wedded to criticism.

I always heard criticism is the tax on fame. They were right. And then some.

I am... for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the conduct of their agents.

I am bound by my own definition of criticism : a disinterested endeavour to learn and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world.

I am a model of positivity compared to the kinds of vitriol, the kinds of destructive criticisms that Labor members of parliament have been making of each other.

I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure.