Jean de la Bruyere Quotes About Criticism

Quotes about: Criticism

• The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Beautiful, Criticism, Pleasure

• Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both its readers and the writer himself.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Hard Work, Men, Hands

  "Of Books". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

• The pleasure of criticizing takes away from us the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Criticism, Pleasure, Fine Things

• The most accomplished literary work would be reduced to nothing by carping criticism, if the author would listen to all critics and allow every one to erase the passage which pleases him the least.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Criticism, Would Be, Accomplished

• Criticism is as often a trade as a science, requiring, as it does, more health than wit, more labour than capacity, more practice than genius.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Science, Practice, Criticism

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