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| Critics | I have always been very fond of them . . . I think it is so frightfully clever of them to go night after night to the theatre and know so little about it. | Coward | Noel | |
| Critics | Reviewers must normally function as huff-and-puff artists blowing laggard theatergoers stageward. | Kerr | Walter | |
| Critics | Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost what it feels about dogs. | Osborne | John | |
| Critics | People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic. | Shaw | George Bernard | |
| Critics | A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car. | Tynan | Kenneth | |
| Critics | Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good. | Wodehouse | P.G. | |
| Critics,Playwriting | Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like - then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping. | Cocteau | Jean | |
| Critics,Playwriting | The sheer complexity of writing a play always had dazzled me. In an effort to understand it, I became a critic. | Tynan | Kenneth | |
| General,Critics | Coughing in the theater is not a respiratory ailment. It is a criticism. | Lerner | Alan Jay |