William Gilmore Simms Quotes About Criticism

Quotes about: Criticism

• He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Fear, Criticism, Genius

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.25

• The dread of criticism is the death of genius.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Fear, Weight Loss, Criticism

• Neither praise nor blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe and honestly to award - these are the true aims and duties of criticism.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Awards, Criticism, Blame

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.19

• I listen to them freely and with all the respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge, reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Character, Criticism, Respect Me

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