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They who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write, Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.

All who have writ ill plays before, For they, like thieves, condemned, are hangman made, To execute the members of their trade.

"I'm an owl: you're another. Sir Critic, good day." And the barber kept on shaving.

Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.

Reviewers are forever telling authors they can't understand them. The author might often reply: Is that my fault?

Give no time to finding fault of criticism.

He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Honest criticism is hard to take - especially when it comes from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements; they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled "wrong.".

Each generation produces its squad of "moderns" with peashooters to attack Gibraltar.

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

The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

Blame is safer than praise.

I never give them hell; I just tell them the truth and they think it is hell.