Saturday, May 30, 2015

Sarcastic Sayings About Critics

Do we really need critics? Mark Twain said that he believed that the trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the mot degraded of all trades, and that it has no real value--certainly no large value.

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American journalist, author and dramatist Gene Fowler said don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts. So, what say you?

Anyway, now let's take a look my list of sarcastic sayings about critics.


“Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post what it feels about dogs." - John Osborne

"A critic is someone who's at his best, when you're at your worst." - Tony Pettito

"Critics are the stupid who discuss about the wise." - Anonymous

"A critic is a man who writes about things he doesn't like."  - Anonymous

"Any fool can criticize, and many of them do." - C. Garbett

"A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them." - Richard Le Gallienne

"Don't pay any attention to the critics, don't even ignore them." - Samuel Goldwyn

"Mediocrity is more danger in a critic than in a writer." - Eugene Ionesco

"A critic is one who goes along for deride" - L. L. Levinson

"Insects sting, not from malice but because they want to live. It is the same with critics - they desire our blood, not pain" - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Critics? I love every bone in their head" - Eugene O'Neill

"I always felt those articles somehow revel more about the the writers than they do about me." - Marilyn Monroe

“Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.” - P.G. Wodehouse

“Don't bow down to critics who have not themselves written great masterpieces.” - Lawrence Ferlinghetti

“Critics are our friends, they show us our faults.” - Benjamin Franklin

“I've been all over the world and I've never seen a statue of a critic.” - Leonard Bernstein

“If you love my work, you are a good critic. If you do not love my work, you are a 'not good' critic.” - Roman Payne

“To literary critics a book is assumed to be guilty until it proves itself innocent.” - Nelson Algren

“Critasism is just a way of saying I'm jealous of your talents.” - Rayvon L. Browne

“A critic is a man created to praise greater men than himself, but he is never able to find them.” - Richard Le Gallienne

"If a critic should start a religion it would not have any object but to convert angels, and they wouldn't need it." - Mark Twain

“Those who can write, write. Those who can't, criticize.” - Max Hawthorne

“Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.” - John Updike

“Listen to the praises about you in silence; listen to the critics about you even in more silence!” - Mehmet Murat ildan