Famous quotes by Critics

"I began writing a book on love because I felt that the United States is moving away from love"

Bell Hooks, Critic

"I have been thinking about the notion of perfect love as being without fear, and what that means for us in a world that's becoming increasingly xenophobic, tortured by fundamentalism and nationalism"

Bell Hooks, Critic

"That a literature in our time is living is shown in that way that it debates problems"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage"

Harold Bloom, Critic

"I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist"

Harold Bloom, Critic

"To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life"

Walter Pater, Critic

"Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"For the will and not the gift makes the giver"

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Critic

"Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism"

Irving Babbitt, Critic

"The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book"

Northrop Frye, Critic

"Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash, we have very little reason to be interested in them"

Pauline Kael, Critic

"Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure"

Paul de Man, Critic

"My assignment is what every writer's assignment is: tell the truth of his own time"

Leslie Fiedler, Critic

"The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization"

Fredric Jameson, Critic

"The nature of the task needs to be renewed so people just don't feel that all the hard work is in the same groove all the time, under the same circumstances and in the same environment"

Timothy White, Critic

"Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn't waste time waiting for inspiration"

Ernest Newman, Critic

"Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved"

Barbara Johnson, Critic

"Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today as they ever were"

Leonard Maltin, Critic

"Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever"

James Agate, Critic

"Intolerance is evidence of impotence"

Aleister Crowley, Critic

"I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior"

Hippolyte Taine, Critic

"Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant"

John Simon, Critic

"Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest things in the nicest way"

Isaac Goldberg, Critic

"Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading"

M. H. Abrams, Critic

"You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"The more we do, the more we can do"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"There is nothing good to be had in the country, or if there is, they will not let you have it"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong if we do not feel right"

William Hazlitt, Critic

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