Famous quotes by Critics

"Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding"

Kenneth Tynan, Critic

"A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping"

Kenneth Tynan, Critic

"A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening"

Kenneth Tynan, Critic

"A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past"

Kenneth Tynan, 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 critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action"

John Mason Brown, Critic

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

John Mason Brown, Critic

"So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies"

John Mason Brown, Critic

"If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved"

Russell Lynes, Critic

"A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes"

Russell Lynes, Critic

"I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting"

John Mason Brown, Critic

"A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember"

John Mason Brown, Critic

"Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others"

John Mason Brown, Critic

"No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause"

John Mason Brown, Critic

"Activating oxygen can produce compounds called radicals that put oxidative stress on cells. Such stress could ultimately lead to cancer and other diseases"

John Simon, Critic

"People are looking around. They are looking to do something with their time and money. The question is what?"

John Simon, Critic

"Like springs, adaptations can only go downhill"

John Simon, Critic

"We like to be the largest outside investor and the first outside investor"

John Simon, Critic

"Michael Taylor is not being executed for homicide. Michael Taylor is being executed for raping a white female"

John Simon, Critic

"It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity"

Russell Lynes, Critic

"A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap, but they almost never coincide"

Russell Lynes, Critic

"We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity"

M. H. Abrams, Critic

"The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves, and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives"

M. H. Abrams, Critic

"John Updike is always fun. And one of my former students, Tom Pynchon. And Harold Bloom, another former student"

M. H. Abrams, Critic

"If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem"

M. H. Abrams, Critic

"These code authorities could regulate production, quantities, qualities, prices, distribution methods, etc., under the supervision of the NRA. This was fascism"

John T. Flynn, Critic

"The Communists were interested in getting into key positions as union officers, statisticians, economists, etc., in order to utilize the apparatus of the unions to promote the cause of revolution"

John T. Flynn, Critic

"The CIO put up half a million dollars for Roosevelt's 1936 campaign and provided him with an immense group of active labor workers who played a large part in the sweeping victory he won at the polls"

John T. Flynn, Critic

"The only result of our present system - unless we reverse the drift - must be the gradual extension of the fascist sector and the gradual disappearance of the system of free enterprise under a free representative government"

John T. Flynn, Critic

"Fascism will come at the hands of perfectly authentic Americans"

John T. Flynn, Critic

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