In truth it may be laid down as an almost universal rule that good poets are bad critics.
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.
CRITIC, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.
We must be very careful when we give advice to younger people: sometimes they follow it!
Know when to speake; for many times it brings
Danger to give the best advice to kings.
Be niggards of advice on no pretense;
For the worst avarice is that of sense.
When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,
The line too labours, and the words move slow.
Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but those who hate to be rebuked are stupid.
But spite of all the criticizing elves,
Those who would make us feel—must feel themselves.