Verbal Criticism Quotes

Of every ten persons who talk about you, nine will say something bad, and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.

Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.

When I composed, I heard my music played by the orchestra within days of completion of the score. No master at a conservatory, no matter how revered, can teach as much by verbal criticism as can a cold and analytical hearing of one's own music being played.

The last sort I shall mention are verbal critics - mere word-catchers, fellows that pick out a word in a sentence and a sentence in a volume, and tell you it is wrong. The title of Ultra-Crepidarian critics has been given to a variety of this species.

An upbraided morsell never choaked any.

I see comments occasionally about the way I speak but it goes straight over my head. You speak the way you speak and it is a silly thing to judge someone on.

Thou hast the most unsavoury similes.