Trifle Quotes

110 quotes by 90 authors

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think… — Marcus Aurelius
What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do… — Joseph Addison
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable… — Samuel Butler
The study of Nature is intercourse with the highest mind. You should never trifle with Nature. At her lowest her works are the works of… — Louis Agassiz
His neighbor is a tooth-drawer. That bag at his girdle is full of the teeth that he drew at Winchester fair. I warrant that there… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot pretend they have… — George Bernard Shaw
At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense. — Alexander Pope
We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us. — William Hazlitt
Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation. — Charles Dickens
The meal was pretentious - a kind of beetroot soup with greasy croutons; pork underdone with loud vulgar cabbage, potato croquettes, tinned peas in tiny… — Anthony Burgess
Everything is a trifle to a man who is a Christian except the glorifying of Christ — Charles Spurgeon
Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles; but the magnifying of the one is like looking through a telescope at heavenly objects; that of the other, like… — Leigh Hunt
Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or surrendered on matters of principle. But I have said, as I say… — Mahatma Gandhi
I love the sound of snow... You can hear it even if you are only standing on a balcony. [The sound] is only minimal, not… — Claudio Abbado
One must not trifle with love — Alfred de Musset
There is so much wretchedness in the world, that we may safely take the word of any mortal professing to need our assistance; and, even… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
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 perfume, divides them,… — Maurice Maeterlinck
I cannot bear to associate with the ordinary run of people. I have to surround myself with individuals who for the most part are more… — Wallace Thurman
Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations. — George Crabbe

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