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A critic is a eunuch working in a harem. He watches it, but he knows he can't do it. Critics very often are failed writers and, like failed priests, they hate religion.

A critic is someone who never actually goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded.

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

A good drama critic is one who perceives what is happening in the theatre of his time. A great drama critic also perceives what is not happening.

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!

There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.

Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did.

I have never believed that the critic is the rival of the poet, but I do believe that criticism is a genre of literature or it does not exist.