Famous quotes by Critics

"Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"A hair in the head is worth two in the brush"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"The perfect joys of heaven do not satisfy the cravings of nature"

William Hazlitt, Critic

"Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it"

Andrea Dworkin, Critic

"Childbearing is glorified in part because women die from it"

Andrea Dworkin, Critic

"Woman is not born: she is made. In the making, her humanity is destroyed. She becomes symbol of this, symbol of that: mother of the earth, slut of the universe; but she never becomes herself because it is forbidden for her to do so"

Andrea Dworkin, Critic

"Male supremacy is fused into the language, so that every sentence both heralds and affirms it"

Andrea Dworkin, Critic

"Being a Jew, one learns to believe in the reality of cruelty and one learns to recognize indifference to human suffering as a fact"

Andrea Dworkin, Critic

"Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments"

Walter Benjamin, Critic

"'Tis the privilege of friendship to talk nonsense, and have her nonsense respected"

Charles Lamb, Critic

"He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest"

Walter Benjamin, Critic

"Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories"

Walter Benjamin, Critic

"Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred"

Walter Benjamin, Critic

"Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death"

Walter Benjamin, Critic

"Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away"

Walter Benjamin, Critic

"I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early"

Charles Lamb, Critic

"I could never hate anyone I knew"

Charles Lamb, Critic

"Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life"

Charles Lamb, Critic

"For thy sake, tobacco, I would do anything but die"

Charles Lamb, Critic

"The photographic image... is a message without a code"

Roland Barthes, Critic

"Literature is without proofs. By which it must be understood that it cannot prove, not only what it says, but even that it is worth the trouble of saying it"

Roland Barthes, Critic

"Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive"

Roland Barthes, Critic

"I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient"

Roland Barthes, Critic

"Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical"

Margaret Fuller, Critic

"Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind as harrowing and planting those of the earth"

Margaret Fuller, Critic

"Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals"

Edmund Wilson, Critic

"All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely"

Edmund Wilson, Critic

"The more things change, the more they are the same"

Alphonse Karr, Critic

"When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us"

Bell Hooks, Critic

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