Criticize
Definition: Indicate the faults of (someone or something) in a disapproving way.
Number of Quotes: 20
Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.
Mary Kay Ash
No man can tell another his faults so as to benefit him, unless he loves him.
Henry Ward Beecher
I never sleep through a performance. I always make sure that I am awake for the intermission.
Robert Benchley
CYNIC, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
Ambrose Bierce
Everything you reprove in another, you must carefully avoid in yourself.
Cicero
I can take any amount of criticism, so long as it is unqualified praise.
Noël Coward
I was delighted to see that you thought I was as good as I thought I was.
Noël Coward
Everyone threw the blame on me ... they nearly always do. I suppose ... they think I shall be able to bear it best.
Winston Churchill
Think before you speak is criticism's motto; speak before you think is creation's.
E. M. Forster
Praise should always be given in public, criticism should always be given in private.
Jean Paul Getty
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs.
Christopher Hampton
Cheers hearten a man. But jeers are just as essential. They help maintain his sense of balance and proportion.
Jay House
I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything.
Thomas Huxley
He has great tranquility of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the faultfinding of men.
Thomas à Kempis
People ask you for criticism but they only want praise.
W. Somerset Maugham
I don't give a damn what the media critics say. It's what your readers say. If you haven't got any readers, you're only talking to yourself.
Rupert Murdoch
They have a right to censure that have a heart to help.
William Penn
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
John Ruskin
A cynic is a man who looks at the world with a monocle in his mind's eye.
Carolyn Wells
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