Famous quotes by Critics

"If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Zeal will do more than knowledge"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Truth is the object of philosophy, but not always of philosophers"

John Churton Collins, Critic

"If we knew each other's secrets, what comforts we should find"

John Churton Collins, Critic

"As long as there is rape... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become what you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in"

Andrea Dworkin, Critic

""Women's fashion" is a euphemism for fashion created by men for women"

Andrea Dworkin, Critic

"Literature is the question minus the answer"

Roland Barthes, Critic

"For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?"

Bell Hooks, Critic

"But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude"

Harold Bloom, Critic

"There must be some one quality without which a work of art cannot exist; possessing which, in the least degree, no work is altogether worthless"

Clive Bell, Critic

"It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality"

Clive Bell, Critic

"But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet, he is also a great psychologist"

Lytton Strachey, Critic

"It is of the essence of imaginative culture that it transcends the limits both of the naturally possible and of the morally acceptable"

Northrop Frye, Critic

"Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy"

William Warburton, Critic

"And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them"

F. L. Lucas, Critic

"Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Rules and models destroy genius and art"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"The common erotic project of destroying women makes it possible for men to unite into a brotherhood; this project is the only firm and trustworthy groundwork for cooperation among males; and all male bonding is based on it"

Andrea Dworkin, Critic

"Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership"

Andrea Dworkin, Critic

"Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out, armed, and relieve the stroller of his conviction"

Walter Benjamin, Critic

"Cards are war, in disguise of a sport"

Charles Lamb, Critic

"New Year's Day is every man's birthday"

Charles Lamb, Critic

"Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment"

Charles Lamb, Critic

"What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth"

Roland Barthes, Critic

"Nature provides exceptions to every rule"

Margaret Fuller, Critic

"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it"

Margaret Fuller, Critic

"Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end"

Alphonse Karr, Critic

"Life-transforming ideas have always come to me through books"

Bell Hooks, Critic

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