Criticism Quotations

Dale Carnegie

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Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.

- Dale Carnegie

Benjamin Disraeli

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

- Benjamin Disraeli

Henry Fielding

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Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.

- Henry Fielding

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Elbert Hubbard

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

- Elbert Hubbard

Franklin P. Jones

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Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

- Franklin P. Jones

William Somerset Maugham

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People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

- William Somerset Maugham

Henry Louis Mencken

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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

- Henry Louis Mencken

Native American Proverb

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Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins.

- Native American Proverb

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut

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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.

- Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut