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[Henry James'] essay's closing lines can either be read neutrally or as a more purposeful wish that this mystery [of Shakespeare's authorship] will one day be resolved by the 'criticism of the future': 'The figured tapestry, the long arras that hides him, is always there ... May it not then be but a question, for the fullness of time, of the finer weapon, the sharper point, the stronger arm, the more extended lunge?' Is Shakespeare hinting here that one day critics will hit upon another, more suitable candidate, identify the individual in whom the man and artist converge and are 'one'? If so, his choice of metaphor - recalling Hamlet's lunge at the arras in the closet scene - is fortunate. Could James have forgotten that the sharp point of Hamlet's weapon finds the wrong man? ~ James Shapiro
Shakespeare Criticism quotes by James Shapiro
Wild with laughter, Twelfth Night is nevertheless almost always on the edge of violence. ~ Harold Bloom
Shakespeare Criticism quotes by Harold Bloom
When meeting criticism, he would regard it not as something to resent but as a thing to be examined, like an interesting beetle. That's a curious view, not uninteresting. ~ Barbara W. Tuchman
Shakespeare Criticism quotes by Barbara W. Tuchman
If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow. ~ A.R. Rahman
Shakespeare Criticism quotes by A.R. Rahman
Would it not be wiser, then, to remit this part of reading and to allow the critics, the gowned and furred authorities of the library, to decide the question of the book's absolute value for us? Yet how impossible! We may stress the value of sympathy; we may try to sink our identity as we read. But we know that we cannot sympathise wholly or immerse ourselves wholly; there is always a demon in us who whispers, "I hate, I love", and we cannot silence him. Indeed, it is precisely because we hate and we love that our relation with the poets and novelists is so intimate that we find the presence of another person intolerable. And even if the results are abhorrent and our judgments are wrong, still our taste, the nerve of sensation that sends shocks through us, is our chief illuminant; we learn through feeling; we cannot suppress our own idiosyncrasy without impoverishing it. ~ Virginia Woolf
Shakespeare Criticism quotes by Virginia Woolf
The true Enlightenment thinker, the true rationalist, never wants to talk anyone into anything. No, he does not even want to convince; all the time he is aware that he may be wrong. Above all, he values the intellectual independence of others too highly to want to convince them in important matters. He would much rather invite contradiction, preferably in the form of rational and disciplined criticism. He seeks not to convince but to arouse - to challenge others to form free opinions. ~ Karl Popper
Shakespeare Criticism quotes by Karl Popper
So with Dr. Johnson and John Stuart Mill, and Spencer, and William Shakespeare, and Chaucer, and Milton, and John Bunyan, and others of that royal company of bards, thanks to my father and Mr. Gruffydd, I was acquainted, more than plenty of other boys, and thus had a lasting benefit in school. ~ Richard Llewellyn
Shakespeare Criticism quotes by Richard Llewellyn
People thrive on positive reinforcement. They can take only a certain amount of criticism and you may lose them altogether if you criticize them in a personal way ... you can make a point without being personal. Don't insult or belittle your people. Instead of getting more out of them you will get less ~ Bill Walsh
Shakespeare Criticism quotes by Bill Walsh
Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires. ~ William Shakespeare
Shakespeare Criticism quotes by William Shakespeare
But that there is a simple relation between literary and other fictions seems, if one attends to it, more obvious than has appeared. If we think first of modern fictions, it can hardly be an accident that ever since Nietzsche generalized and developed the Kantian insights, literature has increasingly asserted its right to an arbitrary and private choice of fictional norms, just as historiography has become a discipline more devious and dubious because of our recognition that its methods depend to an unsuspected degree on myths and fictions. After Nietzsche it was possible to say, as Stevens did, that 'the final belief must be in a fiction.' This poet, to whom the whole question was of perpetual interest, saw that to think in this way was to postpone the End--when the fiction might be said to coincide with reality--for ever; to make of it a fiction, an imaginary moment when 'at last' the world of fact and the mundo of fiction shall be one. Such a fiction--the last section of Notes toward a Supreme Fiction is, appropriately, the place where Stevens gives it his fullest attention--such a fiction of the end is like infinity plus one and imaginary numbers in mathematics, something we know does not exist, but which helps us to make sense of and to move in the world. Mundo is itself such a fiction. I think Stevens, who certainly thought we have to make our sense out of whatever materials we find to hand, borrowed it from Ortega. His general doctrine of fictions he took from Vaihinge ~ Frank Kermode
Shakespeare Criticism quotes by Frank Kermode
Had it pleas'd heaven
To try me with affliction * * *
I should have found in some place of my soul
A drop of patience. ~ William Shakespeare
Shakespeare Criticism quotes by William Shakespeare
This posture of skepticism towards the classics displays a profound misjudg- ment. For the great works of Western culture are remarkable for the dis- tance that they maintained from the norms and orthodoxies that gave birth to them. Only a very shallow reading of Chaucer or Shakespeare would see those writers as endorsing the societies in which they lived, or would over- look the far more important fact that their works hold mankind to the light of moral judgment, and examine, with all the love and all the pity that it calls for, the frailty of human nature. It is precisely the aspiration towards universal truth, towards a God's-eye perspective on the human condition, that is the hallmark of Western culture. ~ Theodore Dalrymple
Shakespeare Criticism quotes by Theodore Dalrymple
This reasoning is based on the wishful thinking that genius can only be earned through education and hard work. It denies the time-proven truth that genius can strike like a random bolt of lightning, at any time in any place, even in a humble glover's home in a small town in Elizabethan England. ~ Andrea Mays
Shakespeare Criticism quotes by Andrea Mays
ELEANOR, DUCHESS OF GLOUCESTER:
Could I come near your beauty with my nails,
I could set my ten commandements in your face. ~ William Shakespeare
Shakespeare Criticism quotes by William Shakespeare
The past is the prologue. ~ William Shakespeare
Shakespeare Criticism quotes by William Shakespeare
I don't care how unkind the things people say about me so long as they don't say them to my face. ~ Ogden Nash
Shakespeare Criticism quotes by Ogden Nash
As for how criticism of Keats' poetry relates to criticism of my own work, I'll leave that for others to decide. ~ Jane Campion
Shakespeare Criticism quotes by Jane Campion
Of all unfortunate men one of the unhappiest is a middling author endowed with too lively a sensibility for criticism. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
Shakespeare Criticism quotes by Benjamin Disraeli
In memory of Jim Heacock "In thy face I see the map of honor, truth, and loyalty." - William Shakespeare Henry VI, Part III ~ Tess Gerritsen
Shakespeare Criticism quotes by Tess Gerritsen
In my experiences, the common critic of Christianity, when he thinks of Christianity, imagines a sort of elementary, Sunday School blunder of elements: fiery Hell, an angry God, 'try not to sin', 'be good so that you can go to Heaven', absurd miracles, hyper-fundamentalist tales, religious hypocrites, and Jesus telling people not to judge. There is no horse more dead than such. I maintain that understanding Christianity and the Bible is quite like painting a piece of art. Let a toddler paint a puppy; then let an adult who is a long-time painter paint the very same puppy. They are both paintings of the puppy, but one is far more detailed, rational, realistic, and believable than the other. One is distorted and comical; the other is proportional and lively. One can write off Theology if he so pleases, but he might not be very wise in using the toddler's painting when it comes time to identify the real puppy or when trying to confront actual men of the Faith. ~ Criss Jami
Shakespeare Criticism quotes by Criss Jami
Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet is a tragic play written early in the career of William Shakespeare about two teenage "star-cross'd lovers" whose untimely deaths ultimately unite their feuding households. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and, along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays. Today, the title characters are regarded as archetypal "young lovers". (From Wikipedia) ~ Jane Austen
Shakespeare Criticism quotes by Jane Austen
When you are criticised don't ignore it, but don't get overpowered by it, and certainly there is no need to be defensive about it. Rather, wait for a while and then weigh up its merits and demerits, balance it out and chart out your approaches and actions to improve. That is the right way to handle criticism, as it demonstrate your emotional maturity and will enhance your self confidence. ~ Vishwas Chavan
Shakespeare Criticism quotes by Vishwas Chavan
PARAPHRASE: Genius is not that you are smarter than everyone else. It is that you are ready to receive the inspiration. ~ Albert Einstein
Shakespeare Criticism quotes by Albert Einstein
Men may construe things, after their fashion / Clean them from the purpose of the things themselves
-Cicero ~ William Shakespeare
Shakespeare Criticism quotes by William Shakespeare
I am a man who used to wear the tights. We traveled the country doing two Shakespeare plays for bored college students for about a year. I think I'd probably still be doing it now if I hadn't just randomly decided to go to a sketch group audition. That led to doing improv, which led to the Daily Show. But it was fun while it lasted. ~ Rob Corddry
Shakespeare Criticism quotes by Rob Corddry
O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame. ~ William Shakespeare
Shakespeare Criticism quotes by William Shakespeare
Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. ~ Immanuel Kant
Shakespeare Criticism quotes by Immanuel Kant
Finally, to hinder the description of illness in literature, there is the poverty of the language. English, which can express the thoughts of Hamlet and the tragedy of Lear, has no words for the shiver and the headache. It has all grown one way. The merest schoolgirl, when she falls in love, has Shakespeare or Keats to speak her mind for her; but let a sufferer try to describe a pain in his head to a doctor and language at once runs dry. There is nothing ready made for him. He is forced to coin words himself, and, taking his pain in one hand, and a lump of pure sound in the other (as perhaps the people of Babel did in the beginning), so to crush them together that a brand new word in the end drops out. Probably it will be something laughable. ~ Virginia Woolf
Shakespeare Criticism quotes by Virginia Woolf
Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ingrateful were to make a monster of the multitude; of which we being members, should bring ourselves to be monstrous members. ~ William Shakespeare
Shakespeare Criticism quotes by William Shakespeare
Bow, stubborn knees, and, heart with strings of steel,
Be soft as sinews of the new-born babe.
All many be well. ~ William Shakespeare
Shakespeare Criticism quotes by William Shakespeare
Dying is the fastest route to fame for an aspiring rock star. The dead man's melodies become profound, acquiring deep mystery and rising into a realm beyond the reach of human criticism. In the stopping of a heartbeat, the rocker is transformed from decadent, depraved hedonist into misunderstood genius. Aye, death and musical stardom go together like Scotland and rain. ~ Mark Rice
Shakespeare Criticism quotes by Mark Rice
I see things too, although you judge I wink. ~ William Shakespeare
Shakespeare Criticism quotes by William Shakespeare
Therefore it is most expedient for the wise, if Don Worm (his conscience) find no impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his own virtues, as I am to myself. ~ William Shakespeare
Shakespeare Criticism quotes by William Shakespeare
You put your soul into something and people think they can pass judgment on it just like that." She snapped her fingers. "I'll never get used to the critics. ~ Sonali Dev
Shakespeare Criticism quotes by Sonali Dev
Anti-intellectualism is virtually our civic religion. "Critical thinking" may be a ubiquitous educational slogan - a vaguely defined skill we hope our children pick up on the way to adulthood - but the rewards for not using your intelligence are immediate and abundant. ~ A.O. Scott
Shakespeare Criticism quotes by A.O. Scott
What else may hap, to time I will commit. ~ William Shakespeare
Shakespeare Criticism quotes by William Shakespeare
I hope that you have nothing against malice, my good engineer. In my eyes it is the brightest sword that reason has against the powers of darkness and ugliness. Malice, sir, is the spirit of criticism, and criticism marks the origin of progress and enlightenment. ~ Thomas Mann
Shakespeare Criticism quotes by Thomas Mann
Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today. Let me repeat that: Gene Wolfe is the greatest writer in the English language alive today! I mean it. Shakespeare was a better stylist, Melville was more important to American letters, and Charles Dickens had a defter hand at creating characters. But among living writers, there is nobody who can even approach Gene Wolfe for brilliance of prose, clarity of thought, and depth in meaning ~ Michael Swanwick
Shakespeare Criticism quotes by Michael Swanwick
Hopeless and helpless doth AEgeon wend,
But to procrastinate his lifeless end. ~ William Shakespeare
Shakespeare Criticism quotes by William Shakespeare
She is drowned already, sir, with salt water, though I seem to drown her remembrance again with more. ~ William Shakespeare
Shakespeare Criticism quotes by William Shakespeare
If only I could see myself from the same vantage point that I observe the world; I might judge my behavior and expressions more critically, and others less. ~ Richelle E. Goodrich
Shakespeare Criticism quotes by Richelle E. Goodrich
CUSTOMER (to her friend): What's this literary criticism section? Is it for books that complain about other books? ~ Jen Campbell
Shakespeare Criticism quotes by Jen Campbell
The Stonehenge proposal got a lot of interesting criticism. One of the best - or worst - said something like, "Go home to Las Vegas." I think this project could possibly be realized at a very late part of my career. Right now, I don't have the authority, the budget, the credibility. ~ Aleksandra Mir
Shakespeare Criticism quotes by Aleksandra Mir
The importance of English word order is also the reason that the idea that you can't end a sentence with a preposition is utter hogwash. In fact, it would be utter hogwash anyway, and anyone who claims that you can't end a sentence with up, should be told to shut. It is, as Shakespeare put it, such stuff as dreams are made on, but it's one of those silly English beliefs that flesh is heir to. ~ Mark Forsyth
Shakespeare Criticism quotes by Mark Forsyth
England is safe, if true within itself. ~ William Shakespeare
Shakespeare Criticism quotes by William Shakespeare
Only yourself can critizice your ideas for you are the only one who knows where are they coming from and how they were born. ~ Pedro A. Perez Raymond
Shakespeare Criticism quotes by Pedro A. Perez Raymond
Fairy tales. That was all she could remember about fairies, and as she tried desperately to recall the ones she'd heard or read, she realized she knew of few with fairies in them. And the two before her were nothing like Rumpelstiltskin or Cinderella's fairy godmother. Elegant Oberon and Titiana, silly Puck
Shakespeare was no help, either. These two, with their changing shapes and their offhand cruelties, had their roots in horror movies. ~ Emma Bull
Shakespeare Criticism quotes by Emma Bull
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