Criticism

• Nothing would be done at all, if a man waited till he could do it so well that no one could find fault with it. — John Henry Cardinal Newman
• A man is perfectly entitled to laugh at a thing because he happens to find it incomprehensible. What he has no right to do is to laugh at it as incomprehensible, and then criticize it as if he comprehended it. — G.K. Chesterton
• If a writer is so cautious that he never writes anything that cannot be criticized, he will never write anything that can be read. If you want to help other people you have got to make up your mind to write things that some men will condemn. — Thomas Merton
• I am a critic—as essential to the theater as ants to a picnic. — Joseph Mankiewicz
• Praise and criticism are both frauds. — Anonymous
• A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car. — Kenneth Tynan