Famous quotes by Critics

"I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is"

Charles Lamb, Critic

"Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever"

Charles Lamb, Critic

"Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it"

Charles Lamb, Critic

"Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength"

Charles Lamb, Critic

"The New is not a fashion, it is a value"

Roland Barthes, Critic

"For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture"

Roland Barthes, Critic

"To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished"

Roland Barthes, Critic

"What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself"

Roland Barthes, Critic

"The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning"

Roland Barthes, Critic

"I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun"

Roland Barthes, Critic

"A photograph is always invisible, it is not "it" that we see"

Roland Barthes, Critic

"The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man"

Roland Barthes, Critic

"The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!"

Roland Barthes, Critic

"There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it"

Roland Barthes, Critic

"To eat steak rare... represents both a nature and a morality"

Roland Barthes, Critic

"Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula"

Roland Barthes, Critic

"A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind, as well as for the body"

Margaret Fuller, Critic

"Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold"

Margaret Fuller, Critic

"Man tells his aspiration in his God, but in his demon he shows his depth of experience"

Margaret Fuller, Critic

"Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved"

Margaret Fuller, Critic

"Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body"

Margaret Fuller, Critic

"Men, for the sake of getting a living, forget to live"

Margaret Fuller, Critic

"It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor"

Margaret Fuller, Critic

"It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods"

Margaret Fuller, Critic

"I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own"

Margaret Fuller, Critic

"For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life"

Margaret Fuller, Critic

"Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow"

Margaret Fuller, Critic

"The especial genius of women, I believe, to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency"

Margaret Fuller, Critic

"The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it"

Margaret Fuller, Critic

"Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking"

Margaret Fuller, Critic

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