W. Somerset Maugham Quotes About Criticism

Quotes about: Criticism

• People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  People, Envy, Gossip

• When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we have formed of ourselves from which we have left out everything that offends our vanity or would discredit us in the eyes of the world.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Eye, Vanity, Judging

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

• People who ask for your criticism want only praise.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  People, Criticism, Want

• You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Cynical, Criticism, Doe

  W. Somerset Maugham (1930). “Cakes and Ale”

• But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Criticism, Destructive

  W. Somerset Maugham (2011). “Of Human Bondage (人性枷鎖)”, p.390, Hyweb Technology Co. Ltd.

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