Cavil Quotes
- 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… — Jacques Barzun
- 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… — Walt Whitman
- The ignorant pronounce it Frood To cavil or applaud The well-informed pronounce it Froyd But I pronounce it Fraud. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- 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… — Horace
- Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court. — William Wycherley