Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.
Brendan Behan

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough.
Kevin Bacon

Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.
Nat King Cole

Critics established a snobbery toward me.
Esther Williams

Critics have done the wine industry a lot of good overall.
Robert Mondavi

Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did.
Duke Ellington

Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
Peter Ustinov

Critics themselves, they used to tear me up.
Mickey Spillane

Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame.
Robert Burns

Critics? How do they happen? I know how it happened to me. I would send a poem or story to a magazine and they would say this doesn't suit our needs precisely but on the other hand you sound interesting. Would you be interested in doing a review?
Leslie Fiedler

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.
Ernest Hemingway

Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them.
Samuel Goldwyn

Filmmakers and critics wrote about each other and sometimes very harshly. This no longer exists.
Wim Wenders

For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity.
Gavin Rossdale

For some reason most critics have a hard time fixing their minds directly under their noses, and before they see the object that is there they use a telescope upon the horizon to see where it came from.
Allen Tate

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.
Eli Wallach

I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are.
Jim Jarmusch

I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.
Jon Bon Jovi

I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
Irwin Shaw