As
much as we thirst for approval we dread
condemnation.
-- Hans Selye
1907-1982, Canadian
Physician Born In Austria, Research On Stress
Give
me the critic bred in Nature's school, who neither
talks by rote, nor thinks by rule; who feeling's
honest dictates still obeys, and dares, without a
precedent, to praise.
-- Sir Martin Archer
Shee
Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most
stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns
thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author
turns critic.
-- Percy Bysshe
Shelley
1792-1822, British
Poet
A man
generally has the good or ill qualities he
attributes to mankind.
-- William Shenstone
1714-1763, British
Poet
