I believe that the trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades, and that it has no real value--certainly no large value...However, let it go. It is the will of God that we must have critics, and missionaries, and congressmen, and humorists, and we must bear the burden.
I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage.
One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself.
Experience has not taught me very much; still it has taught me that it is not wise to criticise a piece of literature, except to an enemy of the person who wrote it; then, if you praise it, that enemy admires you for your honest manliness, & if you dispraise it he admires you for your sound judgment.
A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn't make fun of another man's cross-eyed aunt.
I have nothing to add to the words of the master when it comes to pure snark...
One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself.
Experience has not taught me very much; still it has taught me that it is not wise to criticise a piece of literature, except to an enemy of the person who wrote it; then, if you praise it, that enemy admires you for your honest manliness, & if you dispraise it he admires you for your sound judgment.
A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn't make fun of another man's cross-eyed aunt.
I have nothing to add to the words of the master when it comes to pure snark...
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