Unspoken Criticism Quotes

The silence of a friend commonly amounts to treachery. His not daring to say anything in our behalf implies a tacit censure.

Silence is sometimes the severest criticism.

No one I know is actually so rude as to tell me I've become duller since having children. But I'm sure they think it.

Funny enough, if you are looking at people these days who are putting Botox in their face and getting all sorts of plastic surgery, we look at them and go, I can tell you've had Botox. I can tell you've had plastic surgery. You look really strange to me. But no one's saying anything. We're just accepting the fact that they're strange-looking.

To hint at a fault does more mischief than speaking out; for whatever is left for the imagination to finish will not fail to be overdone.

I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.

Let's face it: Russell Crowe is fat and no one ever talks about it.

English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.

The silence of a man who loves to praise is a censure sufficiently severe.

Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people, their white American faces turned towards me in stern reproof.

Thank you, people who say 'Wow, you're really photogenic,' for not saying what you really mean: 'Wow, you're really ugly in person.'

There was a lot of stress and assumptions made without me even saying anything, which was very upsetting.

So, Hitchcock wouldn't say anything about my work in the movie but, on the other hand, he wouldn't complain, either.

My mother seemed to undermine so much of what I did, subtly belittling my choices and my activities in light of her greater, more important ones.

The ladies looked one another over with microscopic carelessness.

When you grow up a Matthews, other Matthews are always telling you what you're doing wrong.

The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says nothing, and avoids your eye.