"Let Sporus tremble - "What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk?Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel?Who breaks a Butterfly upon a Wheel?"Yet let me flap this Bug with gilded wings,This painted Child of Dirt that stinks and stings; Whose Buzz the Witty and the Fair annoys,Yet Wit ne'er tastes, and Beauty ne'er enjoys."

Criticism, Satire, Beauty, Wit, Art

16

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Let Sporus tremble - "What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk?Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel?Who breaks a Butterfly upon a Wheel?"Yet let me flap this Bug with gilded wings,This painted Child of Dirt that stinks and stings; Whose Buzz the Witty and the Fair annoys,Yet Wit ne'er tastes, and Beauty ne'er enjoys."

Exlpore more Criticism quotes

"He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals."

Henry Miller, American Author

Criticism, Science, Religion, Nationalism, Patriotism

"Learn to brush off criticism as easily as you brush aside hollow compliments."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Criticism, Wisdom, Truth, Inspirational, Regret

"Many reviews are useless because, while purporting to condemn the book, they only reveal the reviewer's dislike of the kind to which it belongs. Let bad tragedies be censured by those who love tragedy, and bad detective stories by those who love the detective story. Then we shall learn their real faults. Otherwise we shall find epics blamed for not being novels, farces for not being high comedies, novels by James for lacking the swift action of Smollett. Who wants to hear a particular claret abused by a fanatical teetotaller, or a particular woman by a confirmed misogynist?"

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Criticism, Love, Perception

"One of the main reasons and excuses behind every religious failure is a FALSE PROMISE."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Criticism, Religion, Failure, Falsehood

"Some who have read the book, or at any rate reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no reason to complain, since I have similar opinions of their work, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Criticism, Writing, Work

"The planet is littered with irresponsible gods."

T. F. Hodge, American Motivational Speaker

Criticism, Environment, Blame, Existence

"We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers."

Marguerite Gardiner, Irish Writer

Criticism, May, Respect, Smile

"Introspection precedes constructive criticism.Introspeksi mendahului kritik yang membangun."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Criticism, Introspection, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair so an unsuccessful author turns critic."

Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet

Criticism, Failure, Irony, Ambition

"I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie."

Walter Hill, American Director

Criticism, Film

Explore more quotes by Alexander Pope

"Most critics, fond of subservient artstill make the whole depend upon a part.They talk of principles, but notions prizeAnd all to one loved folly sacrifice."

Art

"Never find fault with the absent."

Judgment

"Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God."

Freedom

"Sickness is a sort of early old age it teaches us a diffidence in our earthly state."

Health

"Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground."

Contentment

"All seems infected that the infected spy as all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye."

Perception

"For fools rush in where angels fear to tread."

Fear

"I am his Highness' dog at Kew;Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?"

Humor

"Like Cato, give his little senate laws, and sit attentive to his own applause."

Responsibility

"To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves."

Forgiveness