Quotes by Critics

My parents gave up a lot to bring me up in the little house on the prairie, and I wasn't prepared to make those sacrifices, nor was the generation before me and the generation after. Tony Parsons
Me Generation Parents Before Gave Those Sacrifices House Make Prairie Nor Lot Up After Little Prepared Bring
The most convincing argument against early parenthood is that you are in a relationship that is likely to fall apart before that child grows up. Tony Parsons
Relationship You Argument Fall Before Parenthood Most Likely Up Child Against Apart Convincing Grows Early
When you have a kid, money matters. Tony Parsons
You Money Matters Kid
I box for four hours a week and my diet is pretty healthy. Tony Parsons
Healthy Pretty Week Hours Box Diet Four
The thing I care about is my weight - I'm as fanatical about it as a member of Girls Aloud. I weigh myself every morning. I know exactly what I want to be - 82kg - and I try to stick to it. Tony Parsons
Myself Morning Try Care Girl Every Member Exactly Exactly What About Weigh Weight Aloud Know Stick Want Fanatical Thing
My parents have been dead for many years, and when your folks are gone there is nobody standing between you and eternity. Tony Parsons
You Parents Gone Folks Between Nobody Dead Been Years Eternity Your Standing Many
If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset? Van Wyck Brooks
World Job Evil Men Giving Bad Would Bother Outset Instead Were Up Improve Who Basically
Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means. Van Wyck Brooks
Nothing Worldly Having Sadder Without Than Means Standards
The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible. Van Wyck Brooks
Me Bible Mind Unlike Books Once Said American Formed Newspapers English
There is no stopping the world's tendency to throw off imposed restraints, the religious authority that is based on the ignorance of the many, the political authority that is based on the knowledge of the few. Van Wyck Brooks
Knowledge Ignorance World Political Few Religious Tendency Throw Imposed Off Authority Stopping Many Based
It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be. Vincent Canby
Edge Teeth Put George Wherever Might Including Washington Guaranteed
Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives. Vincent Canby
Good Experience Events Feeling Own Living Our Though Varied Mysterious Importance Reveals Methods Fiction Lives
I am strongly convinced that the people or society is the best and the most unerring critic. Vissarion Belinsky
Best People Society Critic Strongly Most Am Convinced
The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator. Waldemar Januszczak
Art Problem World Money Men Thinking Taken Over Course Always Am Real Been Ship Wake Art World Curator Pirates Real Problem Species Awful
Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred. Walter Benjamin
Memory Experience Theatre Lie Past Medium Cities Dead Instrument Which Exploring Ground
Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away. Walter Benjamin
Experience Bird Dream Boredom Drives Him Leaves Egg Away
Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom. Walter Benjamin
Life Wisdom Real Life Fabric Woven Counsel Real
All disgust is originally disgust at touching. Walter Benjamin
Touching Disgust Originally
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. Walter Benjamin
Wisdom Truth Art Side Out Reaching Because End Dying Storytelling Epic
The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion. Walter Benjamin
Art Criticism Distinction Significance Criticized Between New Sharper Greater Truly Art Form Conventional Form Public Social Decrease Aversion Enjoyed Enjoyment
Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock. Walter Benjamin
Gifts Must Point Affect Shock Receiver
Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby. Walter Benjamin
Book Spices Baby Approach Genuine Cannibal Lovingly
Books and harlots have their quarrels in public. Walter Benjamin
Books Quarrels Public
Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments. Walter Benjamin
Matter Only Judgments Opinions Private Interest Public
Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction. Walter Benjamin
Work Conviction Wayside Out Relieve Armed Like Leap His Quotations Who
The art of the critic in a nutshell: to coin slogans without betraying ideas. The slogans of an inadequate criticism peddle ideas to fashion. Walter Benjamin
Art Fashion Criticism Nutshell Critic Slogans Betraying Ideas Without Inadequate Coin
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