Quotes about Criticism

A demd, damp, moist, unpleasant body!

I am the only child of parents who weighed, measured, and priced everything; for whom what could not be weighed, measured, and priced had no existence.

His shoes looked too large; his sleeve looked too long; his hair looked too limp; his features looked too mean; his exposed throat looked as if a halter would have done it good.

Freedom of opinion! Where is it? I see a press more mean and paltry and silly and disgraceful than any country ever knew, - if that be its standard, here it is. ... I speak of Miss Martineau, and all parties... shower down upon her a perfect cataract of abuse. "But what has she done? Surely she praised America enough!" - "Yes, but she told us of some of our faults, and Americans can't bear to be told of their faults.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.

There is rampant among us a spirit of criticism. Men and women who carry heavy responsibility do not need criticism, they need encouragement.

The greater the fruit a trees bears, the greater the number of stones thrown at it.

The greater the fruit a tree bears, the greater the number of stones thrown at it.

My Son, take it not sadly to heart, if any think ill of thee, and say of thee what thou art unwilling to hear.

This sort of absurd subterfuge, and this manner of speaking of the Almighty, as one would speak of a man, is consistent with nothing but the stupidity of the Bible.

It is a duty incumbent on every true deist, that he vindicates the moral justice of God against the calumnies of the Bible.