Critic Quotes

Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
Nature provides exceptions to every rule.
Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.
The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.
The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.
The use of criticism, in periodical writing, is to sift, not to stamp a work.
Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.
Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.
Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.
We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.
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.
Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles... respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law... or, in a word justice.
If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.
It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.
The artist writes, paints, sings or dances the burden of some idea or feeling off his mind.
Though the clown is often deadpan, he is a connoisseur of laughter.
Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.
The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.
The biographer who writes the life of his subject's self-concept passes through a fade into the inner house of life.
A Christmas Carol is such a fool-proof story you can't louse it up.
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