Critic Quotes

The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action.

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

A friend is a lot of things, but a critic isn't.

A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!

In the later books I am much more at home in the use of language to describe things. I had never thought of that until a critic pointed that out.

The only critic is a full house.

I don't need a critic to tell me I'm an actor. I make my own way. Nobody's my boss. Nobody's ever been my boss.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.