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Sayings about Criticism:

Critics indeed are valuable men, But hyper-critics are as good again.: James Bramston

Who high in letter’d reputation sit, And hold, Astrea-like, the scales of wit.: Charles Churchill

He wreathed the rod of criticism with roses.: Benjamin Disraeli

But his hand drops no flowers.: Benjamin Disraeli

We are naturally displeased with an unknown critic, as the ladies are with a lampooner, because we are bitten in the dark.: John Dryden

The most judicious writer is sometimes mistaken after all his care; but the hasty critic, who judges on a view, is full as liable to be deceived.: John Dryden

They wholly mistake the nature of criticism who think its business is principally to find fault.: John Dryden

Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the good-natured man.: Oliver Goldsmith

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.: Dr. Samuel Johnson

Criticism, though dignified from the earliest ages by the labours of men eminent for knowledge and sagacity, has not yet attained the certainty and stability of science.: Dr. Samuel Johnson

Ah, ne’er so dire a thirst of glory boast, Nor in the critic let the man be lost.: Alexander Pope

Get your enemies to read your works, in order to mend them; for your friend is so much your second-self that he will judge too like you.: Alexander Pope

You are so good a critic that it is the greatest happiness of the modern poets that you do not hear their works; and, next, that you are not so arrant a critic as to damn them, like the rest, without hearing.: Alexander Pope

True it is that the talents for criticism (namely, smartness, quick censure, vivacity of remark; indeed, all but acerbity) seem rather the gifts of youth than of old age.: Alexander Pope

A jest upon a poor wit at first might have had an epigrammatist for its father, and been afterwards gravely understood by some painful collector.: Alexander Pope

It is very much an image of that author’s writing; who has an agreeableness that charms us, without correctness; like a mistress whose faults we see, but love her with them all.: Alexander Pope

Sure, upon the whole, a bad author deserves better usage than a bad critic: a man may be the former merely through the misfortune of an ill judgment; but he cannot be the latter without both that and an ill temper.: Alexander Pope

I am nothing if not critical.: William Shakespeare

A poet that fails in writing becomes often a morose critic. The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.: William Shenstone

There is nothing so bad but a man may lay hold of something about it that will afford matter of excuse; nor nothing so excellent but a man may fasten upon something belonging to it whereby to reduce it.: John Tillotson

Some persons, from the secret stimulations of vanity or envy, despise a valuable book, and throw contempt upon it by wholesale.: Dr. Isaac Watts

Let there be no wilful perversion of another’s meaning; no sudden seizure of a lapsed syllable to play upon it.: Dr. Isaac Watts

Another sort of judges will decide in favour of an author, or will pronounce him a mere blunderer, according to the company they have kept.: Dr. Isaac Watts

Every critic has his own hypothesis: if the common text be not favourable to his opinion, a various lection shall be made authentic.: Dr. Isaac Watts

They will endeavour to diminish the honour of the best treatise rather than suffer the little mistakes of the author to pass unexposed.: Dr. Isaac Watts

If the remarker would but once try to outshine the author by writing a better book on the same subject, he would soon be convinced of his own insufficiency.: Dr. Isaac Watts

Such parts of writing as are stupid or silly, false or mistaken, should become subjects of occasional criticism.: Dr. Isaac Watts

Show your critical learning in the etymology of terms, the synonymous and the paronymous or kindred names.: Dr. Isaac Watts

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