5 Elbert Hubbard Quotes on Criticism

Elbert Hubbard quotes on criticism

12. I have no perfect panacea for human ills. And even if I had I would not attempt to present a system of philosophy between the soup and fish, but this much I will say: The distinctively modern custom of marital bundling is the doom of chivalry and death of passion. It wears all tender sentiment to a napless warp, and no wonder is it that the novelist, without he has a seared and bitter heart, hesitates to follow the couple beyond the church door. There is no greater reproach to our civilization than the sight of men joking the boy whose heart is pierced by the first rays of a life-giving sun, or of our expecting a girl to blush because she is twice God's child today she was yesterday. [Pg. 57.]

16. Making men live in three worlds at once-past, present and future has been the chief harm organized religion has done.

17. Men who marry for gratification, propagation or the matter of buttons or socks, must expect to cope with and deal in a certain amount of quibble, subterfuge, concealments, and double, deep-dyed prevarication. [Pg. 159.]

20. Respectability is the dickey on the bosom of civilization.

103. To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.