Famous quotes by Critics

"Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman"

Margaret Fuller, Critic

"It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpreted, a broader protest is made in behalf of women. As men become aware that few have had a fair chance, they are inclined to say that no women have had a fair chance"

Margaret Fuller, Critic

"Essays, entitled critical, are epistles addressed to the public, through which the mind of the recluse relieves itself of its impressions"

Margaret Fuller, Critic

"Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life"

Margaret Fuller, Critic

"The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work"

Margaret Fuller, Critic

"It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love, in their universal energy"

Margaret Fuller, Critic

"I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression"

Margaret Fuller, Critic

"We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness"

Margaret Fuller, Critic

"There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income"

Edmund Wilson, Critic

"The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination"

Edmund Wilson, Critic

"The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society"

Edmund Wilson, Critic

"I am not quite a poet, but I am something of the kind"

Edmund Wilson, Critic

"Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine"

Edmund Wilson, Critic

"His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship"

Edmund Wilson, Critic

"If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart"

Edmund Wilson, Critic

"Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided"

Alphonse Karr, Critic

"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses"

Alphonse Karr, Critic

"Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else"

Alphonse Karr, Critic

"We can invent only with memory"

Alphonse Karr, Critic

"If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious"

Alphonse Karr, Critic

"I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked"

Alphonse Karr, Critic

"Uncertainty is the worst of all evils, until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty"

Alphonse Karr, Critic

"Many people think that virtue consists of severity towards others"

Alphonse Karr, Critic

"I'm such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that that's a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn't that interested in moving from place to place"

Bell Hooks, Critic

"Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment"

Bell Hooks, Critic

"I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer"

Bell Hooks, Critic

"I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"My father, though, could run very much faster. It was impossible to compete with him on the grass. But it was astonishing how slow old people were. Some of them could not run up a hill and called it trying to climb stairs"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"Birth was something that came quite unexpectedly, and afterwards there was one child more in the house"

Georg Brandes, Critic

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