If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it

If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it

Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be
criticised.

Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be
criticised.

Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.

Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.

Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors.

Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.

Too nicely Jonson knew the critic's part,
Nature in him was almost lost in art.

Too nicely Jonson knew the critic's part,
Nature in him was almost lost in art.