My personal favourite...
"I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. In a moment it will be behind me."
- Max Reger, responding to a savage review by Rudolph Louis in Munchener Neueste Nachrichten, February 7, 1906.
Edited to Add:
I just turned the page on my Forgotten English calendar this is the word for the weekend:
"criticaster - a petty or inferior critic; used in contempt" - Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1893