Critics Quotes

Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs.

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

There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep.

For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from.

I think there were early critics who wanted us to change the world because the Sex Pistols failed.

Critics called me 'egregious' - I had to look that one up - and 'creepy', but now I don't read them, I weigh them.

I mean, the old film critics just excoriated me.

A good review from the critics is just another stay of execution.

Most professional players are their own biggest critics. Some of the things you read in the papers that strike you as bang out of order will already have been thought by the players themselves.

I suppose when I started out I would have liked to have been the darling of critics or something, but everybody wants to be loved and admired.

Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.

I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played.

Style is the dress of thought; a modest dress, Neat, but not gaudy, will true critics please.

The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs.

Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we've forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number or, God forbid, to set the alarm clock for my weekly 6 a.m. flight to Washington, but I know exactly where I came from.

Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.

People taking photographs of their meals are not critics; they are from the United States.

When you're doing a film, it's your film and it's, you know, your blood and - is in it along with everybody else's, and it's the greatest picture ever made when you're shooting it. It's only after the critics and then the public say you were wrong that you realize that you were wrong.

If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.

So how critics will perceive your film or your work, or whether your movie is going to make $100 million at the box office, or whether you are going to be winning any awards - well, you have no control over that.

The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.

Today, war of necessity is used by critics of military action to describe unavoidable response to an attack like that on Pearl Harbor that led to our prompt, official declaration of war, while they characterize as unwise wars of choice the wars in Korea, Vietnam and the current war in Iraq.

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

Romanticism has never been properly judged. Who was there to judge it? The critics!

Some Critics on the Hearth are not only good-natured, but have rather too high, or, if that is impossible, let us say too pronounced, an opinion of the abilities of their literary friends.

It would not be fair to the critics of Rotary, who include some of the most brilliant of the British and American writers, to charge them with prejudice.

My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me.

To most jazz critics I was basically Kenny G.

Somehow I wasn't completely crucified by the critics. I don't know how or why, I probably should've been.

It's not the journalists; it's the critics that I can't understand. I've never understood what kind of a person would want to criticize someone else's work.