#criticism

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

#criticism #first #sympathy

Maybe it's legitimate criticism, though it can be hurtful. Maybe I haven't paid sufficient attention to the people with whom I would have a natural affinity as a liberal, and they feel let down by that. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

#attention #criticism #down #feel #haven

Give no time to finding fault of criticism. ↗

— Marvin J. Ashton

#fault #finding #give #time

It’s commonplace to nitpick on minor faults. But it's exceptional to correct them through enlargement. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #self-improvement #funny

Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#democracy #humour #politics #democracy

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#literary-criticism #obscurity #writing #authority

The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#criticism #memory #verbal-abuse #words #ignorance

Anyone who has the temerity to write about Jane Austen is aware of [two] facts: first, that of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness; second, that there are twenty-five elderly gentlemen living in the neighbourhood of London who resent any slight upon her genius as if it were an insult to the chastity of their aunts. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#criticism #jane-austen #london

In criticism, I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#critics #criticism

I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society. [p.92] ↗

— Northrop Frye

#literary-criticism #education