Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes About Criticism

Quotes about: Criticism

• The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Strength, Lying, Criticism

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Kavanagh (Annotated Edition)”, p.110, Jazzybee Verlag

• A young critic is like a boy with a gun; he fires at every living thing he sees. He thinks only of his own skill, not of the pain he is giving.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Pain, Gun, Boys

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

• Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work rather that its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as a bad heart of Procreates turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Heart, Passion, Men

• A spirit of criticism, if indulged in, leads to a censoriousness of disposition that is destructive of all nobler feeling. The man who lives to find faults has a miserable mission.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Gratitude, Men, Feelings

• Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Army, Challenges, Criticism

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Kavanagh (Annotated Edition)”, p.46, Jazzybee Verlag

• I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Criticism, Receiving, Deserving

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “The Works of Henry W. Longfellow”

• I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it. I stand in awe of my own opinion. The secret demerits of which we alone, perhaps, are conscious, are often more difficult to bear than those which have been publicly censured in us, and thus in some degree atoned for.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Secret, Criticism, Receiving

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1853). “Kavanagh: A Tale”, p.184

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