James Russell Lowell Quotes About Critics

Quotes about: Critics

• A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

  James Russell Lowell

  Wise, Wisdom, Criticism

  "Literary Essays, vol. III". Book by James Russell Lowell, 1870-1890.

• A sneer is the weapon of the weak.

  James Russell Lowell

  Criticism, Weapons, Weak

  James Russell Lowell (1845). “Conversations on Some of the Old Poets”, p.56

• It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by what it is not, a matter much easier to determine than what it is.

  James Russell Lowell

  Book, Practice, Class

  Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge (1849). “The North American Review”, p.212

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