Cavil Quotes

#1. Where there are many beauties in a poem I shall not cavil at a few faults proceeding either from negligence or from the imperfection of our nature.

Horace

#2. The young man, born to rule England, which his dying father commended to him. Once his father is dead, London will cavil. The kingdom is taken back from his son.

Nostradamus

#3. A people who are intent on getting something-for-nothing from government cannot cavil over the infringement of their rights by that government;

Anonymous

#4. We may complain and cavil at the anarchy which is the amateurs natural element, but in soberness we must agree that if the amateur did not exist it would be necessary to invent him.

Jacques Barzun

#5. Cavil you may, but never criticise.

Alexander Pope

#6. Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court.

William Wycherley

#7. I don't think of myself as a critic at all. I'm a reviewer and essayist. I mainly hope to share with others my pleasure in the books and authors I write about, though sometimes I do need to cavil and point out shortcomings.

Michael Dirda

#8. The ignorant pronounce it Frood
To cavil or applaud
The well-informed pronounce it Froyd
But I pronounce it Fraud.

G.K. Chesterton

#9. I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.

Walt Whitman

#10. Best masters for the young writer and speaker are the fault- finding brothers and sisters at home who will not spare him, but willpick and cavil, and tell the odious truth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#11. My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ and I cannot cavil or quibble away ... the whole tenor of His conduct by which He sometimes positively asserted and at others countenances His disciples in asserting that He was God.

John Quincy Adams

#12. Half the time I hate myself for all the things I've done ... But the thing that makes me really messed up is the contradiction: when I'm not hating myself, I feel righteous and victimized. Like the world is so unfair.

E. Lockhart

#13. The more delicate and ambitious the soul, the further do dreams estrange it from possible things.

Charles Baudelaire

#14. The Spy Act prohibits keystroke logging, hijacking, and phishing.

Cliff Stearns

#15. Playing a Disney princess is the most amazing, unbelievable thing and on the other, it's completely terrifying. I would say it's a cocktail of every sort of emotion. Princesses are great role models, they teach you about grief loss and have big hearts.

Lily James

#16. What a sight the big man made, sitting his horse with a commanding presence as if he were born to the guardianship. If she hadn't known him, Eva would have guessed him to be as regal as a king.

Amy Jarecki

#17. Sad thing is, you can still love someone and be wrong for them.

Elvis Presley

#18. Yes, I do realize. Saint is offering me ... the world. But a world without him is nothing now.

Katy Evans

#19. He didn't seem to realize that three excuses was as good as no excuse.

Ann Brashares

#20. I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and get it off your chest, then the sooner I can prove you wrong!

Garth Brooks

#21. Let me go!" she growls. "No." "Let me fucking go, Colton." Her voice is tiny, scared, vulnerable, and vehement. "You let go." "Why?" A hitch in her voice. "Because holding on to it is killing you.

Jasinda Wilder