If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators. William Hazlitt
Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators. Albert Camus
The unanimously applauded, self-congratulatory bromides of a Soviet Party Congress seemed contemptible. The unanimity of the sanctimonious, reality-concealing rhetoric spouted by American officials and media commentators in recent days seems, well, unworthy of a mature democracy. Susan Sontag
Oh, rather give me commentators plain, Who with no deep researches vex the brain; Who from the dark and doubtful love to run, And hold their glimmering tapers to the sun. George Crabbe
How commentators each dark passage shun, And hold their farthing candle to the sun. Edward Young
As learned commentators view In Homer more than Homer knew. Jonathan Swift