Critic Quotes: Insights and Wisdom from Renowned Critics (Page 2)

"One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well"

Louis Kronenberger, Critic

"Because what's going on now, and this applies mostly to television stations in the largest markets too, but TV stations basically are now the primary receivers of campaign spending"

Robert McChesney, Critic

"The real peril of war lies not in military defeat. It lies in war itself, whether we win or lose"

John T. Flynn, Critic

"The pursuit of approval usually ends in disaster"

Chris Morris, Critic

"America is a land where men govern, but women rule"

John Mason Brown, Critic

"We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars"

Anatole Broyard, Critic

"CAIR officials or former officials have been arrested on charges related to terrorism yet all it offers is silence and stonewalling in discussing what are its real motives"

Paul Weyrich, Critic

"The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign markets - an achievement generally pushed home politically, by writing clauses into various treaties and aid packages"

Fredric Jameson, Critic

"Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more"

Elizabeth Hardwick, Critic

"The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy"

Clive Bell, Critic

"Every man has three characters - that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has"

Alphonse Karr, Critic

"Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art"

Lytton Strachey, Critic

"Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel"

Leslie Fiedler, Critic

"Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading"

M. H. Abrams, Critic

"To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery"

John Churton Collins, Critic

"A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult"

John Churton Collins, Critic

"In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends"

John Churton Collins, Critic

"A fool often fails because he thinks what is difficult is easy"

John Churton Collins, Critic

"Never claim as a right what you can ask as a favor"

John Churton Collins, Critic

"Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Some one is generally sure to be the sufferer by a joke"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Reflection makes men cowards"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"We are very much what others think of us. The reception our observations meet with gives us courage to proceed, or damps our efforts"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do"

William Hazlitt, Critic

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