"If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back."

Ellen Richards, American Environmental Chemist

Criticism, Water, Will

35

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back."

Exlpore more Criticism quotes

"I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen."

Henry Miller, American Author

Criticism, America, Chance, Old

"I suspect that most authors don't really want criticism, not even constructive criticism. They want straight-out, unabashed, unashamed, fulsome, informed, naked praise, arriving by the shipload every fifteen minutes or so."

Neil Gaiman, British Author

Criticism, Praise, Authors, Creativity

"There is no such thing as constructive criticism. There is constructive advice, constructive guidance, constructive counsel, encouragement, suggestion, and instruction. Criticism, however, is not constructive but a destructive means of faultfinding that cripples all parties involved. Don't be fooled into thinking otherwise."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Criticism, Truth, Power, Wisdom, Inspirational

"Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity."

Joseph Addison, English Writer

Criticism, Defense, Obscurity

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

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Criticism, Wisdom, Truth, Inspirational, Regret

"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

Criticism, Cynic, Flowers, Man

"But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?"

William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet

Criticism, Fleas

"The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book."

Toni Morrison, American Novelist

Criticism, Time

"Criticism is prejudice made plausible."

H. L. Mencken, American Writer

Criticism, Prejudice

"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

Explore more quotes by Ellen Richards

"Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action."

Life

"If it is a relief to take your clothes off at night, be sure that something is wrong. Clothes should not be a burden. They should be a comfort and a protection."

Burden

"You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try."

Woman

"The only trouble here is they won't let us study enough. They are so afraid we shall break down and you know the reputation of the College is at stake, for the question is, can girls get a college degree without ruining their health?"

Health

"Work is a sovereign remedy for all ills, and a man who loves to work will never be unhappy."

Work

"New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions."

Home

"I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class."

Society

"We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not."

Work

"If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back."

Criticism