Trifles Quotes

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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
You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles. — Arthur Conan Doyle
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence — William Shakespeare
Let us not overlook vital things, because of the bulk of trifles confronting us. — Emma Goldman
Trifles make the sum of life. — Charles Dickens
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
My brother could not write about trifles. Even in society he became animated only when some serious discussion was engaged in, and he complained of… — Peter Kropotkin
Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes… — Martin Luther
Little bits of things make me do it; â€” perhaps a word that I said and ought not to have said ten years ago; â€”… — Anthony Trollope
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
I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles. — Arthur Conan Doyle
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
You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties for want of occasions for frittering away your life on silly trifles. — Emily Bronte
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
Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world… — Virginia Woolf
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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