Famous quotes containing the words richardson and/or criticism:
“The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.”
—Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)
“Unless criticism refuses to take itself quite so seriously or at least to permit its readers not to, it will inevitably continue to reflect the finicky canons of the genteel tradition and the depressing pieties of the Culture Religion of Modernism.”
—Leslie Fiedler (b. 1917)