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| Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914) | Critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him. | |
| Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914) | Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic. | |
| Austin O'Malley | A book reviewer is usually a barker before the door of a publisher's circus. | |
| Ben Johnson | There are some men born only to suck out the poison of books. | |
| Brendan Behan | 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. | |
| Channing Pollock | A critic is a legless man who teaches running | |
| Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957) | A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by. | |
| Dr. Samuel Johnson (1707 - 1784) | Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidible at very small expense. | |
| George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) | Reviewing has one advantage over suicide; in suicide you take it out of yourself; in reviewing you take it out of other people. | |
| George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) | A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned. | |
| George Jean Nathan | Criticism is the art wherewith a critic tries to guess himself into a share of the artist's fame. | |
| Harold Rosenberg | No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating. | |
| Jack G. Montgomery (1953 - ) | A critic's review is an individual's attempt to insert him/herself into the efforts of another in the hope of acquiring a tidbit of the results of the effort in a parasitic manner. - (Librarian) | |
| Jean Sibelius | Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic. | |
| John Osborne | Critics are a dissembling, dishonest, contempable race of men. Asking a working writer what he thinks of critics is like asking a lampost what it feels about dogs. | |
| John Updike | Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart. | |
| Jorge Luis Borges (1899 - 1996) | Any time something is written against me, I not only share the sentiment but feel I could do the job far better myself. Perhaps I should advise would-be enemies to send me their grievances beforehand, with full assurance that they will receive my every aid and support. I have even secretly longed to write, under a pen name, a merciless tirade against myself. | |
| Kurt Vonnegut | Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae. | |
| P. G. Wodehouse | Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good. | |
| Sir Thomas Beecham (1879 - 1961) | Drooling, driveling, doleful, depressing, dropsical drips. - (on Critics) | |
| Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933) | A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant. |
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