They will review a book by a writer much older than themselves as if it were an over-ambitious essay by a second-year student . . . It is the little dons I complain about, like so many corgis trotting up, hoping to nip your ankles.
Source: Outcries and Asides.
-- J B Priestley, (Sep 13 1894-1984), English author, dramatist; He wrote Angel Pavement, Literature and Western Man, and The Edwardians.