Critic Quotes

What the critic as a teacher of language tries to teach is not an elegant accomplishment, but the me...

Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they are mistaken for realities, but because they b...

The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes ...

Shakespeare opens a mine which contains gold and diamonds in unexhaustible plenty, though clouded by...

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the ra...

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from t...

The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.

As we passed his table, I saw that the device that imprisoned the book was clever but wicked-looking...

The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all...

Hem,' he said, and I knew he was a critic now, since, in conversation, they put your name at the beg...

Perhaps he even needs to have been a critic and a sceptic and a dogmatist and an historian, and in a...

These questions of taste, of feeling, of inheritance, need no settlement. Everyone carries his own i...

Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only questio...

I'm open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.