Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Cripples are aye better schemers than walkers. Sc. Pr.

Criticism is a disinterested endeavour to learn 15 and propagate the best that is known and thought in the world. Matthew Arnold.

Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than genius. La Bruyère.

Criticism is like champagne, nothing more execrable if bad, nothing more excellent if good. Colton.

Criticism is not construction; it is observation. G. W. Curtis.

Criticism must never be sharpened into anatomy. The life of the imagination, as of the body, disappears when we pursue it. Willmott.

Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars 20 and blossoms together. Jean Paul.

Criticism should be written for the public, not the artist. Wm. Winter.

Critics all are ready made. Byron.

Critics are men who have failed in literature and art. Disraeli.