Advice Quotes
Shakespeare and Alexander Pope tie for the most entries, with Charles Churchill, La Rochefoucauld and Franklin behind. The dependable sourced lines are the cynical ones. Wilde, in An Ideal Husband (1895), says he always passes on good advice because it is never of any use to oneself, and Bierce, in 1911, defines advice as the smallest current coin. Disraeli’s definition of critics, in Lothair (1870), as men who have failed in literature and art is filed here too.
Flagged: “Many receive advice, few profit by it,” credited to Publilius Syrus and disputed; “Most men give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain,” credited to Tom Stoppard, and “When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice,” credited to Saul Bellow, both marked misattributed.
A woman's advice is not worth much, but he who does not heed it is a fool.
The weapon of criticism cannot, of course, replace criticism by weapons.
In such a time as this it is not meet
That every nice offence should bear his comment.
Let dull critics feed upon the carcases of plays; give me the taste and the dressing.
Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.
You know who critics are?— the men who have failed in literature and art.
Who cannot give good counsel? 'tis cheap, it cost them nothing.
For when last need to desperation driveth,
Who dareth most he wisest counsel giveth.
Fools need Advice most, but wise Men only are the better for it.
When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again.
Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice
Hath often still'd my brawling discontent.
“Ah, ‘The Suffering Critic.’ A work to gladden the heart of any artist.”