Harsh Criticism Quotes

Nothing is more unjust or capricious than public opinion.... The public have neither shame nor gratitude.

Fox News is nothing if not impressive. No matter how harsh the criticism it endures, the network somehow always manages to prove itself even worse than we had previously imagined.

I am very quick to judge.

I'll call somebody 'dumb' or 'stupid' if they make a dumb or stupid play. I don't know any other word for it, and if they don't like the word, that's too bad.

I'm sure any vocal teacher that listens to me would rather cut my throat than do anything.

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

I try not to read blogs. The comments are extremely harsh.

What condemnation could possibly be more harsh than one’s own, when self-pretense is no longer possible?

No excuses ever, for anyone; that is my principle at the outset. I deny the good intention, the respectable mistake, the indiscretion, the extenuating circumstance. With me there is no giving of absolution or blessing.

I've been reading reviews of my stories for twenty-five years, and can't remember a single useful point in any of them, or the slightest good advice. The only reviewer who ever made an impression on me was Skabichevsky, who prophesied that I would die drunk in the bottom of a ditch.

If I see someone that is awesome or is an amazing player, I'm going to say he's an amazing player. If he looks like he sucks, I'm going to say, 'Hey that guy sucks!'

They've been bashing me since I started making films.

Our most important, and sometimes most severe, judges are our subordinates.

Were I forced to describe this woman in one word, that word would be...herpes.

The hardest thing that I'll ever do, is ballet. Because you are either good or bad.

We enter the government essentially in a hotel that is on fire. We're throwing people from the windows into the pool to save their lives and this is the evaluation of the Olympic diving committee: Well, the splash was too big.

I've had the greatest respect for my work in this country by Americans. Critics have no brains.

Jazz: Music invented for the torture of imbeciles.

I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?

I am not being negative, I am simply being factual when I say Kevin Rudd is the best friend the people smugglers have ever had

Watching her, I've seen the pros and cons of being in the industry, and how so many people can be so harsh - especially toward someone as talented as Miley. But I look up to her for being so strong, being able to take all of that hate and being able to deal with people who misunderstand who she is.

It is wrong to be harsh with the New York critics, unless one admits in the same breath that it is a condition of their existence that they should write entertainingly about something which is rarely worth writing about at all.

The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.

If you got up on the bandstand at Minton's and couldn't play, you were not only going to be embarrassed by the people ignoring you or booing you, you might get your ass kicked.

But anyone can write, right?'" Conner asked. "I mean, that's why authors get judged so harshly, isn't it? Because technically everyone could do it if they wanted to." "Just because anyone can do something doesn't mean everyone should," Mrs. Peters said. "Besides, anyone with an Internet connection feels they have the credentials to critique or belittle anything these days.