Trifles Quotes

197 quotes by 153 authors

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
Dr. Johnson ... sometimes employed himself in chymistry, sometimes in watering and pruning a vine, and sometimes in small experiments, at which those who may… — James Boswell
There prevails among men of letters, an opinion, that all appearance of science is particularly hateful to Women; and that therefore whoever desires to be… — Samuel Johnson
Everything is a trifle to a man who is a Christian except the glorifying of Christ — Charles Spurgeon
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
Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity. The ignorant peasant without fault is greater than the philosopher with many. What is genius or courage… — Oliver Goldsmith
Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity. — Oliver Goldsmith
When the father is going on in his journey, if the child will not goe on, but stands gaping upon vanity, and when the father… — Thomas Hooker
When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the… — Julia Ward Howe
He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa. — Mahatma Gandhi
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
Children are contemptuous, haughty, irritable, envious, sneaky, selfish, lazy, flighty, timid, liars and hypocrites, quick to laugh and cry, extreme in expressing joy and sorrow,… — Jean de la Bruyere
Once we allow ourselves to do evil so that some perceived good may follow, we allow ever greater evils for the sake of ever more… — Benjamin Wiker
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
One must not trifle with love — Alfred de Musset
There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles. — Elizabeth I
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
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
Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it. — Alexander Herzen
The wood-carver can fashion whatever he will. Yet his products are but toys of the moment, to be glanced at in jest, not fashioned according… — Murasaki Shikibu

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