Logo
The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a la

The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid. – W. H. Auden

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Criticism
category

To be just, that is to say, to justify its existence, criticism should be partial, passionate and political, that is to say, written from an exclusive point of view, but a point of view that opens up the widest horizons. – Charles Baudelaire

Category:
Criticism

Never criticize a man until youve walked a mile in his moccasins. – American Indian Proverb

Category:
Criticism

Be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to wrath. – Bible

Category:
Criticism

Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friends forehead. – Chinese Proverb

Category:
Criticism

Random Quotes

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles. – Benjamin Disraeli

Category:
Business

In one respect at least the Martians are a happy people; they have no lawyers. – Edgar Rice Burroughs

Category:
Lawyers

Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again. – Henri Cartier-Bresson

Category:
Photography

The power of the periodical press is second only to that of the people. – Alexis de Tocqueville

Category:
power