William Hazlitt Quotes About Critics

Quotes about: Critics

• The title of Ultracrepidarian critics has been given to those persons who find fault with small and insignificant details.

  William Hazlitt

  Titles, Details, Faults

  "Table-talk", Essay, 22, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 705-06, 1922.

• The last sort I shall mention are verbal critics - mere word-catchers, fellows that pick out a word in a sentence and a sentence in a volume, and tell you it is wrong. The title of Ultra-Crepidarian critics has been given to a variety of this species.

  William Hazlitt

  Titles, Lasts, Catchers

  William Hazlitt (1822). “Table-talk: Or, Original Essays”, p.143

• The severest critics are always those who have either never attempted, or who have failed in original composition.

  William Hazlitt

  Critics, Composition, Originals

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1498, Delphi Classics

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