Keyword: Criticism (Page 5)

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.

(1887 – 1964) English biographer, critic, novelist & poet

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

(1854 – 1900) Irish dramatist, novelist & poet

A critic is a man who knows the way but can’t drive the car.

(1927 – 1980) English theatre critic & writer

A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.

(1946 – ) American stage & screen actress

Any time you got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.

(1954 – ) filmmaker, author, social critic & activist

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

(1936 – ) television talk show host

If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.

(1925 – 2007) humorist & columnist

My handwriting looks as if a swarm of ants, escaping from an ink bottle, had walked over a sheet of paper without wiping their legs.

(1771 – 1845) English writer & Anglican clergyman

The musician who invented Swing ought to.

Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.

(1918 – 2006) American writer

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim.”

(1908 – 1973) 36th U.S. president

The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small.

(1935 – ) movie actor, director & comedian

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

(1890 – 1957) author & journalist