Trifles Quotes

Trifles make the sum of life.

— Charles Dickens

The instruments of darkness tell us truths.

— William Shakespeare

It is folly to waste labour about trifles.

— Martial

Small minds are captivated by trifles.

— Ovid

Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cracks make caves collapse.

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Men are led by trifles.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Alas, how love can trifle with itself!

— William Shakespeare

“Details are but trifles, but details make for perfection, and perfection is no trifle.”

— Ben Franklin

“Well, women are used to worrying over trifles.”

— Susan Glaspell

Revenge is a dish best served unexpectedly and from a distance - like a thrown trifle.

— Frances Hardinge

A trifle can be enough when luck is on your side.

— Margi Preus

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity.

— George Eliot

Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys.

— Mark Akenside

Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory.

— Philip Sidney

He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“They were like self-centred invalids who absorb themselves in trifles, as narcotics to console them for the loss of hope.”

— Thomas Mannann

Each particle of matter is an immensity, each leaf a world, each insect an inexplicable compendium.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]

— Horace

Persons of rank do not talk about such trifles as the common people do; but the common people do not busy themselves…

— Luc de Clapiers

It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.

— George Eliot

Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check…

— Jonathan Swift

A spark is a molecule of matter, yet may it kindle the world; vast is the mighty ocean, but drops have made…

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or surrendered on matters of principle. But I have said,…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Locke, whom there is no reason to suspect of being a favorer of idleness or libertinism, has advanced that whoever hopes to…

— Samuel Johnson

Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs; Since life's best joys consist in…

— Hannah More

One day there springs up the desire for money and for all that money can provide — the superfluous, luxury in eating,…

— Mother Teresa

Do behold the king in his glory, King Sequoia. Behold! Behold! seems all I can say… Well may I fast, not from…

— John Muir

The voyage of the Beagle has been by far the most important event in my life and has determined my whole career;…

— Charles Darwin

When the last days were upon me, and the ugly trifles of existence began to drive me to madness like the small…

— H. P. Lovecraft

Others will give away large alms in order to be considered charitable people. Should they not give these out of their own…

— John Vianney

There was a table laid with jellies and trifles, with a party hat beside each place, and a birthday cake with seven…

— Neil Gaiman

The quest for this unwearied peace is constant and universal. Probe deeply into the teaching of Buddha, Maimonides, or a Kempis, and…

— Anonymous

A smile flickered across Coral’s face. “Have you ever noticed that once you have had a taste of certain sweets—raspberry trifle is…

— Elizabeth Hoyt

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. Friend, client, child, sickness, fear, want,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest…

— Blaise Pascal

The most dangerous lovers women have are men of Cordis's feminine temperament. Such men, by the delicacy and sensitiveness of their own…

— Edward Bellamy

Although there is nothing so bad for conscience as trifling, there is nothing so good for conscience as trifles. Its certain discipline…

— Maltbie Davenport Babcock