Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
I grow in worth, and wit, and sense, Unboding critic-pen, Or that eternal want of pence, Which vexes public men.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Quotes to Explore
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The true work of a critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with him.
John Ruskin
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On the whole, however, the critic is far less of a professional faultfinder than is sometimes imagined. He is first of all a virtue-finder, a singer of praise. He is not concerned with getting rid of dross except in so far as it hides the gold. In other words, the destructive side of criticism is purely a subsidiary affair. None of the best critics have been men of destructive minds. They are like gardeners whose business is more with the flowers than with the weeds.
Robert Wilson Lynd
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He sucks. I think he's a failure as a food critic.
Kaci Brown
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Critic, relent!Your hope for repentance Will meet with disapppointment.For this is the life,Not desert tents,Not camel's milk!
Abu Nuwas
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A literary woman's best critic is her husband.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
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The critic who doesn't make a personal statement, in remeasurements he himself has made, is merely an unreliable critic. He is not a measurer but a repeater of other men's results. KRINO, to pick out for oneself, to choose. That's what the word means.
Ezra Pound
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No matter what you do, no matter what your profession is, no matter how old you are, everybody deals with haters,
Ariana Grande
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I want every young man who sees me to know that I'm not that different from them. I wasn't born into wealth. I wasn't born into fame. I made a lot of mistakes - but I kept at it.
Barack Obama
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Books are not brands. Some people are very willing to see themselves as a brand, but you can't be a certain type of writer to a certain type of person all the time. It will kill you.
Zadie Smith
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It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Resentment is not morally superior to earning money.
Paul Singer
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I grow in worth, and wit, and sense, Unboding critic-pen, Or that eternal want of pence, Which vexes public men.
Alfred Lord Tennyson