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

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• My mum is my biggest critic. She said I was good for the first film, but I can still be better, and I need to polish my acting skills.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Film
  • Acting
  • Skills

• I am my biggest critic. Even in films where people said they liked me, I have disliked myself.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Films
  • Critic
  • DIsliked

• My family is my biggest critic. Since they come from a non-filmi background, they give me an audience's point of view. They have been very supportive of me.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Family
  • Point
  • Supportive

• If I wasn't a film-maker, I'd be a film critic. It's the only thing I'd be qualified to do.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Film
  • Only
  • Critic

• Doing what we do [filming], you have to be your own critic and judge and adjudicate as to what you do and how it turned out.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Judge
  • Critic
  • Adjudicate

• Tolerance is the last virtue of a depraved society. When an immoral society has blatantly and proudly violated all the commandments, it insists upon one last virtue, tolerance for its immorality. It will not tolerate condemnation of its perversions. It creates a whole new world in which only the intolerant critic of intolerable evil is evil.

  

  Hutton Gibson
  • World
  • Society
  • Evil

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

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beauty
  • Temperament
  • Critic

• The job of the critic is to report to us his moods.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Job
  • Report
  • Critic

• The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • True
  • Ideas
  • Feelings

• There's an enormous difference between being a critic and a reviewer. The reviewer reacts to the experience of that book.

  

  Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Critic

• Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Dog
  • Critic
  • Strike

• The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Habit
  • Writer
  • Critic

• The true work of a critic is not to make his hearer believe him, but agree with him.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Critic

• 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
  • Business
  • Singer
  • Imagined

• Critic, relent!Your hope for repentance Will meet with disapppointment.For this is the life,Not desert tents,Not camel's milk!

  

  Abu Nuwas
  • Hope
  • Critic
  • Disapppointment

• A literary woman's best critic is her husband.

  

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
  • Woman
  • Critic
  • Literary

• 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
  • Choose
  • Results
  • Statement

• Since I'm a story-oriented critic, sometimes it's difficult to discuss issues without defining them. At the same time, I try not to give away anything that hasn't been given away in first half, in TV commercials, or that isn't obvious from the set-up of the movie. My editors are aware of this tendency of mine and read carefully for spoilers.

  

  Stephen Hunter
  • Issues
  • Critic
  • Defining

• I think the potential for the program at the risk of sounding self-serving is large, some would say even limitless, so I'm excited about it and I think it can even pass next year.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Risk
  • Year
  • Potential

• It is cheap generosity which promises the future in compensation for the present.

  

  J. A. Spender
  • Future
  • Present
  • Promise

• Ambition is vital, but dangerous: it is a keen motive and a driving force, but over what edge can it drive the artist?

  

  Eric Maisel
  • Artist
  • Ambition
  • Force

• 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
  • People
  • Time
  • Brand

• I grow in worth, and wit, and sense, Unboding critic-pen, Or that eternal want of pence, Which vexes public men.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Critic
  • I Grow
  • Public Men