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I love criticism as long as it is unqualified praise.

— Noël Coward

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Having to read a footnote resembles having to go downstairs to answer the door while in the midst of making love.

Television is for appearing on, not looking at.

Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs.

Private Lives (1930)

People are wrong when they say that the opera isn't what it used to be. It is what it used to be — that's what's wrong with it!

Design for Living (1932)

Your motivation is your pay packet on Friday. Now get on with it.

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Save censure — critics are ready-made.

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The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.

Aldous Huxley Point Counter Point (1928)

Let no man value at a little price
A virtuous woman's counsel; her wing'd spirit
Is feather'd oftentimes with heavenly words.

George Chapman The Gentleman Usher (1606)

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