Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Small things are best: Grief and unrest To rank and wealth are given; But little things On little wings Bear little souls… — Frederick William Faber Copy Share Image
The shortcomings of economics are not original error but uncorrected obsolescence. The obsolescence has occurred because what is convenient has become sacrosanct.… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Brave old-flowers! Wall-flowers, Gilly flowers, Stocks! For even as the field-flowers, from which a trifle, a ray of beauty, a drop of… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
“The affair seems absurdly trifling, and yet I dare call nothing trivial when I reflect that some of my most classic cases… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles,… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
My father names me Autolycus, who being, as I am, littered under Mercury, was likewise a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Time, which shows so vacant, indivisible, and divine in its coming, is slit and peddled into trifles and tatters. A door is… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Why seek to embarrass [the artist] with vanities foreign to his quietness? Know you not that certain sciences require the whole man,… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
I am an ambassador," Akretenesh warned me, anger bringing his confidence back. "You cannot shoot." "I don't mean to," I reassured him,… — Megan Whalen Turner Copy Share Image
You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The untruthful soldier trifles with the lives of his countrymen and the honor and safety of his country. — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
Of those that spin out trifles and die without a memorial, many flatter themselves with high opinions of their own importance, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Lucy, dear child, mind your arithmetic. You know in the first sum of yours I ever saw there was a mistake. You… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their… — Julia Ward Howe Copy Share Image
The bowl landed, in glorious perfection, atop the head of Mrs Barnaclegoose, who was not the kind of woman to appreciate the… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to… — Ouida Copy Share Image
A toothache will cost a battle, a drizzle cancel an insurrection. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what need… — John Milton Copy Share Image
It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
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