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Trifle Quotes by Elwyn Brooks White
- 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.
- A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape…
- You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's…
- A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear…
More Trifle Quotes
- Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest… — 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… — 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… — Samuel Butler
- The study of Nature is intercourse with the highest mind. You should never trifle with Nature. At her lowest her works are… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Anthony Burgess
- Everything is a trifle to a man who is a Christian except the glorifying of Christ — Charles Spurgeon