Quotes About Criticising

#1. The subjects that I am working are movies that say something. They are shouting or criticising something. I would hate to play a princess waiting for the prince to come and give her a kiss.

Golshifteh Farahani

#2. Most of us waste our energy through chattering - endlessly chattering, gossiping, criticising, backbiting.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#3. Although I felt I was quite good at criticising a philosophical position, I was not very good at defending and making a case for a philosophical position.

Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

#4. As women, we are constantly criticising and judging ourselves in terms of our body, how we dress, what profession we take up, how we fare in that. Indian women are gifted with certain body types and features, which is healthy, and we should accept that.

Vidya Balan

#5. The character I play has all these revolutionary ideas. I think the classic thing is that majority people who are criticising it probably have never read the books, and need to. And I'm sure that the Catholic Church, which is being directed as you know, can handle it.

Daniel Craig

#6. I suggest that instead of criticising us, the establishment has a bloody good look at itself.

Trisha Goddard

#7. I was a very shy girl who led an insulated life; it was only when I came to Oxford, and to Harvard before that, that suddenly I saw the power of people. I didn't know such a power existed, I saw people criticising their own president; you couldn't do that in Pakistan - you'd be thrown in prison.

Benazir Bhutto

#8. Remember, if you are criticising, you are not being grateful. If you are blaming, you are not being grateful. If you are complaining, you are not being grateful.

Rhonda Byrne

#9. Men of great talents, whether poets or historians, seldom escape the attacks of those who, without ever favoring the world with any production of their own, take delight in criticising the works of others.

Miguel De Cervantes

#10. Getting up and criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time. Especially as you know in your heart that you would be doing more or less the same thing if you were in his place.

Ryan Shawcross

#11. If I spent all my time criticising myself, I wouldn't be able to function. There are actors who theorise till the cows come home. I haven't the patience for them. It's maybe shallow, but that's why I'll never be part of the acting set.

Anthony Hopkins

#12. Muphry's Law: "If you write anything criticising editing or proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have written.

Mary Norris

#13. You cannot be loving when you are blaming. You cannot be loving when you are criticising. You cannot be loving when you are judging.

Oprah Winfrey

#14. Never, and by this I mean never, criticise the English weather. Especially if you're an alien. For an English woman, it's as though you are scolding her first born child. For an Englishman, it's as if you are criticising the size of his penis. Or even worse: his football team.

Angela Kiss

#15. A worthy old scholar, criticising the king's penmanship, pointed out a fault. He, smiling, erased the word, but when the critic was gone, began to restore it, remarking that it was right, but it was better to spoil paper than the self-confidence of an old man.

Flora Annie Steel

#16. Wait until the baby is born before you start criticising it, I say!

Roger Moore

#17. I didn't think he was a very 'nice' person,' says Chichilnisky [about Jeff Bezos]. 'I liked him, but he was not warm. I'm not criticising him, not a bit. It was like he could be a Martian for all I knew. A well-meaning, nice Martian.

Richard L. Brandt

#18. No one assume the strength of self-criticise till he stop criticising the others

Daud Gilingil

#19. Isn't there a pleasure in criticising everything and discovering faults where other men detect beauties?

Voltaire

#20. When the eyes are on you for the first time, you can't believe that people aren't criticising you.

Rosamund Pike

#21. It's terribly important that you can criticise people's ideas without criticising them, and if they burst into tears, it means that you tend to hold back from getting at the absolute truth.

Tim Hunt

#22. When I think about somebody like Keira Knightley, whom I don't particularly know, I see somebody who is working hard, really trying to challenge herself and make smart choices in spite of people criticising her size and performances.

Kate Winslet

#23. For, rightly, every man is a channel through which heaven floweth, and, whilst I fancied I was criticising him, I was censuring orrather terminating my own soul.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#24. Peter Breggin, an American psychiatrist, had been criticising SSRIs since the early 1990s. He wrote 'Talking Back to Prozac' (1995) to repudiate psychiatrist Peter Kramer's 'Listening to Prozac' (1993) - a bestseller which claimed that Prozac made patients 'better than well.'

John Cornwell

#25. The best way to avoid criticism is never do anything ever. Or, do what you love, have a great life & let others spend their time criticising.

Ricky Gervais

#26. I have adhered to my rule of never criticising any measure of war or policy after the event unless I had before expressed publicly or formally my opinion or warning about it.

Winston S. Churchill

#27. In the process of ego, in the process of lobbying and in the process of just criticising for stake of criticism or in the process of politicising, don't commit national crime. Don't prevent exploration in the country. Let us move ahead more aggressively; it is in the best interest of the country.

Veerappa Moily

#28. My wife is the most savage critic. She doesn't feel intimidated by my reputation. As far as she's concerned, she's just criticising a boyfriend who'd recently had a go at fiction. She can tell me to abandon whole novels.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#29. Criticising the other fellow because he's in and you are not seems to me a futile waste of time.

Hartley William Shawcross

#30. When the first shock had worn off and when in spite of everything - in spite of their terror of the dogs, and of the habit, developed through long years, of never complaining, never criticising, no matter what happened - they might have uttered some word of protest.

George Orwell

#31. You are welcome to criticise me for the content of this book, but please take into account that when doing so, you are also criticising the women that desire and seek these kind of encounters and are questioning their right to make their own choices.

The Wolf

#32. They're the salt of the earth, those girls. They don't sit each night and compare notes on groups, criticising lyrics, asking if it's valid. They just play the record ... yeah, and maybe they dance. I love them. I love them dearly

David Bowie

#33. I almost choke on my popcorn when I hear film stars, who walk on red carpets as much as the rest of us do on zebra crossings, criticising youngsters who crave fame.

Julie Burchill

#34. It was an observation of Plato, long since, that those are not the best stomachs that reject, without distinction, all sorts of aliments." "True," said Candide, "but still there must certainly be a pleasure in criticising everything, and in perceiving faults where others think they see beauties.

Voltaire

#35. Some people have the disease of criticising all the time. They forget the good about others and only mention their faults. They are like flies that avoid the good and pure places and land on the bad and wounds. This is because of the evil within the self and the spoiled nature

Ibn Taymiyyah