Report, if you have a problem with this page“ The popular distinction between 'constructive' and 'destructive' criticism is a sentimentality: the mind too weak to perceive in what respects the bad fails is not strong enough to appreciate in what the good succeeds. To be without discrimination is to be unable to praise. The critic who lets you know that he always looks for something to like in works he discusses is not telling you anything about the works or about art he is saying 'see what a nice person I am. ”
Brigid Brophy
From : Fifty Works of English Literature We Could Do Without
