Book Critics Circle

Famous quotes containing the words book, critics and/or circle:

    “We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    “Some have at first for wits, then poets passed,
    Turned critics next, and proved plain fools at last.”
    —Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    “we are the circle of the crazy ladies
    who sit in the lounge of the mental house
    and smile at the smiling woman
    who passes us each a bell,”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)