Famous quotes by Critics

"I admired in others the strength that I lacked myself"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"A love for humanity came over me, and watered and fertilised the fields of my inner world which had been lying fallow, and this love of humanity vented itself in a vast compassion"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"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

"Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing, they want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety"

Louis Kronenberger, Critic

"The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being, the American wants to be considered a good guy"

Louis Kronenberger, Critic

"Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty"

Louis Kronenberger, Critic

"All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening"

Alexander Woollcott, Critic

"At 83 Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's"

Alexander Woollcott, Critic

"I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it"

Alexander Woollcott, Critic

"The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told"

Louis Kronenberger, Critic

"In art, there are tears that lie too deep for thought"

Louis Kronenberger, Critic

"Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow"

Louis Kronenberger, Critic

"Individualism is rather like innocence; there must be something unconscious about it"

Louis Kronenberger, Critic

"It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business"

Louis Kronenberger, Critic

"Highly educated bores are by far the worst; they know so much, in such fiendish detail, to be boring about"

Louis Kronenberger, Critic

"The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy"

Louis Kronenberger, Critic

"There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave"

Louis Kronenberger, Critic

"Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing"

Alexander Woollcott, Critic

"There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day"

Alexander Woollcott, Critic

"The English have an extraordinary ability for flying into a great calm"

Alexander Woollcott, Critic

"Nothing risque, nothing gained"

Alexander Woollcott, Critic

"His huff arrived and he departed in it"

Alexander Woollcott, Critic

"What I think I have in common with the school of deconstruction is the mode of negative thinking or negative awareness, in the technical, philosophical sense of the negative, but which comes to me through negative theology"

Harold Bloom, Critic

"We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are"

Harold Bloom, Critic

"The world gets older, without getting either better or worse, and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective"

Harold Bloom, Critic

"The world does not get to be a better or a worse place; it just gets more senescent"

Harold Bloom, Critic

"The second, and I think this is the much more overt and I think it is the main cause, I have been increasingly demonstrating or trying to demonstrate that every possible stance a critic, a scholar, a teacher can take towards a poem is itself inevitably and necessarily poetic"

Harold Bloom, Critic

"I think Freud is about contamination, but I think that is something he learned from Shakespeare, because Shakespeare is about nothing but contamination, you might say"

Harold Bloom, Critic

"What matters in literature, in the end, is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human suffering"

Harold Bloom, Critic

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