A Quote by Alexander Pope
Cavil you may, but never criticise.
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In Korea, if a player doesn't play well, you would never criticise him, but in European countries fans criticise their own teams; sometimes they boo them off the pitch.
We may complain and cavil at the anarchy which is the amateurs natural element, but in soberness we must agree that if the amateur did not exist it would be necessary to invent him.
To criticise a person for their race is a manifestly irrational and ridiculous. But to criticise their religion - that is a right. That is a freedom.
Everything Neymar does turns into news. If he gets emotional, they criticise. If he colours his hair, they criticise.
If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
Personally, I hope that we British continue to criticise America - just as I hope Americans will criticise us. That is what friends do.
Our days weave together the simple pleasures of daily life, which we should never take for granted, and the higher pleasures of Art and Thought which we may now taste as we please, with none to forbid or criticise.
To deliberately criticise another individual may cause an indelible stain on the critic.
Other books we may read and criticise. To the Scriptures we must bow the entire soul, with all its faculties.
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
Personally, I would never criticise a player in public.
Actually, I am a coward. I say only what is safe to say, and I criticise only what is permissable to criticise.
If, however, you take a moment to observe how you actually feel immediately after you criticise someone, you'll notice that you will feel a little deflated and ashamed, almost like you're the one who has been attacked. The reason this is true is that when we criticise, it's a statement to the world and to ourselves, "I have a need to be critical." This isn't something we are usually proud to admit.
It's better to create something that others criticise than to create nothing and criticise others. Go create, have fun!!
Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt! May your eyes never shed such stormy, scalding, heart-wrung tears as poured from mine. May you never appeal to Heaven in prayers so hopeless and so agised as in that hour left my lips: for never may you, like me, dread to be the instrument of evil to what you wholly love.
When I was in the PMO, Digvijaya Singh used to call me whenever he wanted to see the PM. He used to go through me. He is under compulsion to criticise me, but I am under no compulsion to criticise him.
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