Quotes about Criticism

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.
Samuel Johnson

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie

As soon Seek roses in December--ice in June, Hope, constancy in wind, or corn in chaff; Believe a woman or an epitaph, Or any other thing that's false, before You trust in critics.
Lord Byron

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.
George Eliot

I criticize by creation- not by finding fault.
Charles Churchill

Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticized.
Isaac D'Israeli

People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.
W. Somerset Maugham

Listen to everything a man has to say about what he knows, but don't let him advise you about what he doesn't know. And usually he doesn't know too much about what's best for you.
Samuel Amalu

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.
Howard Mumford Jones

Nothing is complete and thus nothing is exempt from criticism.
James Luther Adams