Trifles Quote by Miguel de Cervantes Download Open image “We must not stand upon trifles.” — Miguel de Cervantes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Trifles
You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from trifles springs– Oh! let the ungentle spirit learn from thence A… — Emily Eden Copy Share Image
Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs; Since life's best joys consist in peace and… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
We've got to fool the fools, and plan the plans. We must rule the rules, got to stand the stands. — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
“these are not days in which the people of the world are inclined to quibble over precedents.” — Ann Tusa Copy Share Image
We are less hurt by the contempt of fools than by the lukewarm approval of men of intelligence. — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
Beware, gentle knight - the greatest monster of them all is reason. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
It is one thing to praise discipline, and another to submit to it. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
“So it appears to me, for when he could and should have wielded his pen to praise the virtues of so good a knight,… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
“Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!” — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
I follow a more easy, and, in my opinion, a wiser course, namely--to inveigh against the levity of the female sex, their fickleness, their… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse. — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
There is no real elevation of mind in a contempt of little things; it is, on the contrary, from too narrow views that we… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
It takes little or nothing to undo reputations, the merest trifle makes and remakes them, it is simply a question of finding the best… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
To forsake Christ for the world, is to leave a treasure for a trifle, eternity for a moment, reality for a shadow — William Jenkyn Copy Share Image
These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor; This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles. Everything adds to it. Just as the being we love can do no wrong, so the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
. . . . [P]ersons who love very much, easily take offense at trifles. No doubt your excessive affection for me makes you a… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
She went from opera, park, assembly, play, To morning walks, and prayers three hours a day. To part her time 'twixt reading and bohea,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or surrendered on matters of principle. But I have said, as I… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I have been an "Official" all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is… — William Allingham Copy Share Image
I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
If Christ has died for me, I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance. — Sophocles Copy Share Image