Famous quotes containing the words critics and/or defenders:
“Neither can I do anything to please critics belonging to the good old school of “projected biography,” who examine an author’s work, which they do not understand, through the prism of his life, which they do not know.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.”
—Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933)