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“This shows how much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.”

Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister

Speech http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1860/jan/24/address-in-answer-to-her-majestys-speech in the House of Commons (24 January 1860); see also Lord Byron, "Notes to Canto II" (1812), Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: "How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct". <br class="br">1860s <br class="br">Variant: How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

“Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts.”

George S. Clason book The Richest Man in Babylon

Source: The Richest Man in Babylon

“There is no gesture more devastating than the back turning away.”

Rachel Simmons (1974) American writer

Source: Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls

“There is more in every person's soul than we think.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

“The story is always better than your ability to write it.”

Robin McKinley (1952) American fantasy writer

“Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

“There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.”

Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church

“The organ of perception acts more readily than judgment.”

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452–1519) Italian Renaissance polymath

“The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.”

Andy Rooney (1919–2011) writer, humorist, television personality

“You have more balls than a Christmas tree.”

Danielle Steel (1947) American author of romance novels

“Our patience will achieve more than our force.”

Edmund Burke book Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“Even a minute of dying is better than an eternity of nothingness.”

Darren Shan book Sons of Destiny

Source: Sons of Destiny

“Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

“But that's the challenge -- to change the system more than it changes you.”

Michael Pollan book The Omnivore's Dilemma

Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals

“It seems to leave the darkness rather blacker than before.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book The Hound of the Baskervilles

Source: The Hound of the Baskervilles

“Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.”

Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

“Even bad coffee is better than no coffee at all.”

David Lynch (1946) American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor

“An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.”

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist

Source: Ninety-Three

“I have been no more than a medium, as it were.”

Henri Matisse (1869–1954) French artist

As quoted in Smithsonian (November 1986)
Posthumous quotes

“A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.”

Robert Burton book The Anatomy of Melancholy

The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621)