Critism

My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments.

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

One may do whatever one likes in art: the only thing is to make sure that one does not like it

The same vices that are gross and insupportable in others we do not notice in ourselves

If I had listened to the critics I'd have died drunk in the gutter

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable

Opposition is true friendship

The burning of rebellious thoughts in the little breast, of internal hatred and opposition, could not long go on without slight whiffs of external smoke, such as mark the course of subterranean fire

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works

Don't find fault, find a remedy

To criticize is to appreciate, to appropriate, to take intellectual possession, to establish in fine a relation with the criticized thing and to make it one's own.