Critics

Famous quotes containing the word critics:

“Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)

“There are hardly five critics in America; and several of them are asleep.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“Some have at first for wits, then poets passed,
Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)