National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services.
Corazon Aquino

Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.
William Gilmore Simms

Never feel that a piece of criticism or advice is too much trouble to give, or that it exceeds your province.
Lord Mountbatten

No American soldier should be allowed to set foot on Iranian soil, regardless of the criticism we have of the Iranian government.
Shirin Ebadi

Nobody is that thick-skinned that it doesn't hurt you. Still, you always know what happens in football. I have got used to criticism, I suppose, having been high profile with England and Man U.
Bryan Robson

Obviously there will be a backlash. If you believe the hype you have to believe a backlash too. Any criticism we get, is always stuff we've already criticised ourselves.
Johnny Greenwood

Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, - though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, - the cant of criticism is the most tormenting!
Laurence Sterne

Of course the French are making very credible movies and it is still one of the greatest nations in terms of world cinema but the real problem is the decay in film criticism.
Wim Wenders

One of the things that upset me was some of the criticism leveled at Simon and Garfunkel. I always took exception to it, but actually I agree with a lot of it.
Paul Simon

Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
Balthus

People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
W. Somerset Maugham

People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare.
Jo Brand

Perhaps it would be better for science, that all criticism should be avowed.
Charles Babbage

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.
Howard Mumford Jones

Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.
Edmund Husserl

Philosophical theories or ideas, as points of view, instruments of criticism, may help us to gather up what might otherwise pass unregarded by us.
Walter Pater

Poetry; a criticism of life under the conditions fixed for such a criticism by the laws of poetic truth and poetic beauty.
Matthew Arnold

Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry.
Anne Stevenson

Political criticism is our enemies' best friend.
Bernard Kerik

Praise and criticism seem to me to operate exactly on the same level. If you get a great review, it's really thrilling for about ten minutes. If you get a bad review, it's really crushing for ten minutes. Either way, you go on.
Ann Patchett