Criticism, any amount, we welcome it. Come, let's have a discussion - in Parliament, all the better.
The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope.
A cruel critic has never made anything; his glibness is a way of inflicting his emptiness on others.
To substitute judgments of fact for judgments of value is a sign of pedantic and borrowed criticism.