Critic Quotes

When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower.
When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.
With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.
A city whose living immediacy is so urgent that when I am in it I lose all sense of the past.
A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.
Art is a private thing, the artist makes it for himself; a comprehensible work is the product of a journalist. We need works that are strong, straight, precise, and forever beyond understanding.
Not content to have the audience in the palm of his hand, he goes one further and clinches his fist.
Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.
The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic.
What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.
Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.
My mind is not a bed to be made and re-made.
New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw's prefaces.
Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.
Even the most piddling life is of momentous consequence to its owner.
It's one thing to fight for what you believe in, another thing to fight for what others believe in.
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