Carping Quotes

“People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.”

“I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong/ For such despite they cast on female wits;/ If what I do prove well, it won't advance,/ They'll say it's stolen, or else, it was by chance.”

“Knowing themselves to be faultless, they make it their mission to detect the myriad faults in others, against which they wage incessant tongue.”