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To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
The press, the pulpit, and the stage,
Conspire to censure and expose our age.
The press, the pulpit, and the stage,
Conspire to censure and expose our age.
They who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write,
Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
They who write ill, and they who ne'er durst write,
Turn critics out of mere revenge and spite.
A man must serve his time to every trade
Save censure--critics all are ready made.
Take hackney'd read more
A man must serve his time to every trade
Save censure--critics all are ready made.
Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote,
With just enough of learning to misquote;
A mind well skill'd to find or forge a fault;
A turn for punning, call it Attic salt;
To Jeffrey go, be silent and discreet,
His pay is just ten sterling pounds per sheet;
Fear not to lie, 'twill seem a lucky hit;
Shrink not from blasphemy, 'twill pass for wit;
Care not for feeling--pass your proper jest,
And stand a critic, hated yet caress'd.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of read more
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, read more
When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.
Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of read more
Critics? Don't talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I don't.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.
