Keyword: Criticism

[businesman] Sir Martin Sorrell is more arrogant than the entire French nation put together.


businessman & CEO
Communication Insults

She's generous to a fault… if it's her own.

(1886 – 1969) American journalist & humorist
Characteristics Communication

If my critics saw me walking over the Thames they would say it was because I couldn't swim.

(1925 – 2013) British prime minister & politician
Communication

Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar.

(1918 – 2006) American writer
Books Communication Reading/Writing

A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.

(1890 – 1957) author & journalist
Communication

English painter & sculptor Frederic Leighton to James McNeill Whistler: My dear Whistler, you leave your pictures in such a sketchy, unfinished state. Why don't you ever finish them?

Whistler’s reply: My dear Leighton, why do you ever begin yours?

(1834 – 1903) American-born, British-based artist
Communication Entertainment Insults

It's high time the press finally got one thing right about me.

(1954 – ) American professional tennis player
Appearance Body Communication

Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud; that's because 90% of everything is crud.

(1918 – 1985) science fiction author
Books Insults Reading/Writing

He is a man of his most recent word.

(1925 – 2008) American conservative author, commentator & television host
Beliefs Communication Opinion

The mediocrity of his thinking is concealed by the majesty of his language.

(1897 – 1960) Welsh labor leader & politician
Communication Speech

I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

(1709 – 1784) English author, essayist, critic, editor & lexicographer
Art Communication Entertainment

If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.

(1925 – 2007) humorist & columnist
Communication Government

I have derived continued benefit from criticism at all periods of my life and I do not remember any time when I was ever short of it.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator
Beliefs

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

(1936 – ) television talk show host
Communication Individuals People

One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them.

(1742 – 1799) German writer
Books Communication Reading/Writing

A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.

(1876 – 1933) screenwriter
Communication Insults Opinion

If people don't sit at Chaplin's feet, he goes out and stands where they are sitting.

(1897 – 1953) American writer & producer
Communication

The musician who invented Swing ought to.

Communication Entertainment Music

A critic is a legless man who teaches running.

(1880 – 1946) American playwright, critic & writer
Communication Occupations Work

I hope they notice the mistletoe tied to my coattails as I leave town.

(1922 – 2002) American college basketball coach
Communication

Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive.

(1871 – 1951) American artist
Communication Death Life People