Famous quotes by Critics

"Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life"

Bell Hooks, Critic

"The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance"

Bell Hooks, Critic

"It was jolly in the country. A cow and little pigs to play with and milk warm from the cow"

Georg Brandes, Critic

"The trouble with our age is all signposts and no destination"

Louis Kronenberger, Critic

"It comes from the likes of you! Take what you can get! Grab the chances as they come along! Act in hallways! Sing in doorways! Dance in cellars!"

Alexander Woollcott, Critic

"Germany was the cause of Hitler as much as Chicago is responsible for the Chicago Tribune"

Alexander Woollcott, Critic

"What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude"

Harold Bloom, Critic

"No poem, not even Shakespeare or Milton or Chaucer, is ever strong enough to totally exclude every crucial precursor text or poem"

Harold Bloom, Critic

"Every great film should seem new every time you see it"

Roger Ebert, Critic

"The new job of art is to sit on the wall and get more expensive"

Robert Hughes, Critic

"Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go"

Brooks Atkinson, Critic

"Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end"

Walter Pater, Critic

"We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars"

Anatole Broyard, Critic

"A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses?"

Walter Pater, Critic

"The most fatal illusion is the narrow point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one"

Brooks Atkinson, Critic

"Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind"

Clive Bell, Critic

"In the literature of France, Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal"

Lytton Strachey, Critic

"Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy"

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Critic

"The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it"

Lytton Strachey, Critic

"Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art"

Lytton Strachey, Critic

"A single grateful thought toward heaven is the most perfect prayer"

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Critic

"The most deadly fruit is borne by the hatred which one grafts on an extinguished friendship"

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Critic

"It is not the truth that a man possesses, or believes that he possesses, but the earnest effort which he puts forward to reach the truth, which constitutes the worth of a man"

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Critic

"For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual"

Irving Babbitt, Critic

"The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards"

Irving Babbitt, Critic

"The first prerogative of an artist in any medium is to make a fool of himself"

Pauline Kael, Critic

"A book might be written on the injustice of the just"

Pauline Kael, Critic

"To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy"

Irving Babbitt, Critic

"The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising"

Pauline Kael, Critic

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