Critics are those who have failed in literature and art.

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.

Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own.

There is one way to handle the ignorant and malicious critic. Ignore him.

Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about him. Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of a critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.