Trifle Quotes
110 quotes by 88 authors
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It’s a trifle. It’s got all of these layers. First there’s a layer of ladyfingers, then a layer of jam, then custard, which I made…
— Rachel
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To forsake Christ for the world, is to leave a treasure for a trifle, eternity for a moment, reality for a shadow
— William Jenkyn
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I expressed just now my mistrust of what is called Spiritualism — ... I owe it a trifle for a message said to come from…
— William De Morgan
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. . . nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death To…
— William Shakespeare
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A word, a look, an accent, may affect the destiny not only of individuals, but of nations. He is a bold man who calls anything…
— Andrew Carnegie
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This was a new recognition that perfection is admirable but a trifle inhuman, and that a stumbling kind of semi-success can be much more warming.…
— Roger Angell
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The weight of the world is a trifle, if we all put our two fingers under it and try to lift together.
— Vera Nazarian
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These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor; This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome.
— William Shakespeare
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The distance between the earth and her satellite is a mere trifle, and undeserving of serious consideration. I am convinced that before twenty years are…
— Jules Verne
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The shortcomings of economics are not original error but uncorrected obsolescence. The obsolescence has occurred because what is convenient has become sacrosanct. Anyone who attacks…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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If Christ has died for me - ungodly as I am, without strength as I am - then I can no longer live in sin,…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Sin has been pardoned at such a price that we cannot henceforth trifle with it.
— Charles Spurgeon
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Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.
— Thomas Adams
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By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.
— Elwyn Brooks White
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To trifle with Scripture is to deprive yourself of its aid. Reverence it, and look up to God with devout gratitude for having given it…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?" Caesar: "My…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Shall I redirect my life's journey because down some side road might be some trifle I'm entitled to?
— Robert Breault
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Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Any trifle is enough to entertain two lovers.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The Barry Goldwater movement excited the depths because the apocalypse was brought more near, and like millions of other whites, I had been leading a…
— Norman Mailer
Who Wrote These Trifle Quotes
88 authors contributed a total of 110 Trifle Quotes, led by these top contributors: