Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race. As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair, so an unsuccessful author turns critic.
Source: Adonais, Preface, 1821, first draft, later removed.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley, (Aug 4 1792-1822), English poet; He is famous for his grandeur, beauty and mastery of language, e.g., Hymn to Intellectual Beauty, 1816.