Famous quotes containing the words critics, society and/or award:
“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)
“In a society which is structured the wrong way, piety has no effect.”
—Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)
“The award of a pure gold medal for poetry would flatter the recipient unduly: no poem ever attains such carat purity.”
—Robert Graves (1895–1985)