Quotes about Critic

The only just literary critic," he concluded, "is Christ, who admires more than does any man the gifts He Himself has bestowed.

Some people do really find fault like there's a reward for it.

The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades.

The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool.

The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

In marriage, each partner is to be an encourager rather than a critic; a forgiver rather than a collector of hurts; an enabler rather than a reformer.

A career public speaker is not what I'm called to be. I'm called to be a critic.

Loyalty in a critic is corruption.

Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.

A true critic ought to dwell rather upon excellencies than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

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.