Trifle Quotes
110 quotes by 90 authors
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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
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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
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We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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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
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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
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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
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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
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At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
— Alexander Pope
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We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.
— William Hazlitt
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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
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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
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Everything is a trifle to a man who is a Christian except the glorifying of Christ
— Charles Spurgeon
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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
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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
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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
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One must not trifle with love
— Alfred de Musset
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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
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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
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Trifle Quotes
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