Trifle Quotes

110 Trifle quotes by 88 unique authors

To venerate the simple days Which lead the seasons by, Needs but to remember That from you or I They may take the trifle Termed… — Emily Dickinson
Citizenship is no light trifle to be jeopardized any moment Congress decides to do so under the name of one of its general or implied… — Hugo Black
With women, the great business of life is love; and they generally make a mistake in it. They consult neither the heart nor the head,… — William Hazlitt
Make it your habit not to be critical about small things. — Edward Everett Hale
The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others. — Homer
It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important. — Doris Lessing
Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will… — Henry Cabot Lodge
Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved. — W. Somerset Maugham
Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded. — Dwight L. Moody
A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us. — Blaise Pascal
It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle. — Karl Pilkington
It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are. — Arthur Schopenhauer
It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character. — Arthur Schopenhauer
How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture. — Wallace Stevens
Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves. — Queen Victoria
Mitt Romney - he had a Rock Hudson thing going, shoeblack hair and a well-hung resume, but even for a shameless, position-shifting phony he seemed… — James Wolcott
Oh, Jeeves,' I said; 'about that check suit.' Yes, sir?' Is it really a frost?' A trifle too bizarre, sir, in my opinion.' But lots… — P.G. Wodehouse
I would not be at all surprised to find that it was for gold that Cain committed the first murder. (It happened a very long… — Barbara Mertz
You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections… — Jane Austen
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… — Elwyn Brooks White
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… — Elwyn Brooks White
When the Lord finished the world, he pronounced it good. That is what I said about my first work, too. But Time, I tell you,… — Mark Twain
Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living. — Robert Louis Stevenson
As for the fan, she agreed that it was a most amusing trifle: just what she would wish to buy for herself, if it had… — Georgette Heyer
Flown Raven is the country,"I muttered. "City slave," he said. "Farm boy," I shot back. "I've never even seen a farm." "Don't trifle me with… — Moira J. Moore

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