Definition of Criticism

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Criticism

The rules and principles which regulate the practice of the critic; the art of judging with knowledge and propriety of the beauties and faults of a literary performance, or of a production in the fine arts; as, dramatic criticism.

The act of criticising; a critical judgment passed or expressed; a critical observation or detailed examination and review; a critique; animadversion; censure.

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Criticism Quotations

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
Winston Churchill

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale

You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one.
John Wooden

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public.
Theodore Roosevelt

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.
Henry David Thoreau

There is no just and serene criticism as yet.
Henry David Thoreau

In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me.
Edgar Allan Poe

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
Katharine Hepburn

Most people would have given up when faced with all the criticism I've received over the years.
Albert Ellis

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise.
Mary Kay Ash

Criticism Translations

criticism in Danish is kritik
criticism in Dutch is aanmerking, kritiek, beoordeling
criticism in German is Kritik
criticism in Hungarian is kritika

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