Trifle Quotes

110 Trifle quotes by 88 unique authors

Take a moment from time to time to remember that you are alive. I know this sounds a trifle obvious, but it is amazing how… — Bill Bryson
Those who set up a fictitious worship, merely worship and adore their own delirious fancies; indeed, they would never dare so to trifle with God,… — John Calvin
The Queen of Air and Darkness tilted back her head and laughed. A more ghastly sound I hope never to hear. ‘Do you think I… — Stephen R. Lawhead
I am an ambassador," Akretenesh warned me, anger bringing his confidence back. "You cannot shoot." "I don't mean to," I reassured him, still smiling. I… — Megan Whalen Turner
A smile flickered across Coral’s face. “Have you ever noticed that once you have had a taste of certain sweets—raspberry trifle is my own despair—it… — Elizabeth Hoyt
Revenge is a dish best served unexpectedly and from a distance - like a thrown trifle. — Frances Hardinge
[Will]'d barely been asleep a few minutes when Halt's voice woke him. 'Will? Are you asleep?'... 'I was,' he said, a little indignantly. 'I'm not… — John Flanagan
At the stair-foot Hephaistion was waiting. He happened to be there, as he happened to have a ball handy if Alexander wanted a game, or… — Mary Renault
Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Everything belonged to him--but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for… — Joseph Conrad
Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting. — Jerome K. Jerome
This is where men, even the trustiest, fail us. Their heart is never so wholly given to any matter but that some trifle of a… — C.S. Lewis
It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles. — Arthur Conan Doyle
The bowl landed, in glorious perfection, atop the head of Mrs Barnaclegoose, who was not the kind of woman to appreciate the finer points of… — Gail Carriger
If Christ has died for me, I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend. — Charles Spurgeon
Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle? — James Branch Cabell
God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to which we are… — Saint Francis de Sales
Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances. — Unknown Author
Vision, I say, is related to light itself. But of this sensation and the things pertaining to it, I pretend to understand but little; and… — Galileo Galilei
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle. — Michelangelo
My secret indulgent food is dessert. I have an incredible sweet tooth - chocolate pudding with vanilla ice-cream or trifle and pavlova. I do love… — Deborra-Lee Furness
Possibly you are not aware of the fact that the largest sum given by any contributor to the fund is but a trifle when compared… — John Bright
Strong, generous, and confident, she has nobly served mankind. Beware how you trifle with your marvellous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if… — Henry Cabot Lodge
The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general… — Thomas Day
He that shuns trifles must shun the world. — George Chapman

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