It is a fallacy to think that carping is the strongest form of criticism: the important work begins after the artist's mistakes have been pointed out…

- Wilfrid Sheed

Even the God of Calvin never judged anyone as harshly as married couples judge each other.

- Wilfrid Sheed

If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.

- Wilfrid Sheed

I myself have not met a self‐confessed liberal since the late fifties (and even then it was a tacky thing to admit, like coming from the middle class…

- Wilfrid Sheed

The town is as full as ever of 'characters,' all created by each other.

- Wilfrid Sheed

Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America.

- Wilfrid Sheed

For now, I'm supposing that all movements are equal, which they're not, except in this respect: that none of them gives a damn about artists beyond t…

- Wilfrid Sheed

It's the old case against symbols: if you get them, they seem obvious and artificial, and if you don't, you miss the whole point.

- Wilfrid Sheed

The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.

- Wilfrid Sheed