Quotes of: Trifles Keyword

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

Blaise Pascal

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Michelangelo

The law does not concern itself about trifles.

Traditional

It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.

Doris Lessing

Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.

Dwight L. Moody

The worst of such stories is that the triumphant romancers can always be put to confusion and crushed by the very details in which real life is so rich and which these unhappy and involuntary story-tellers neglect as insignificant trifles. Oh, they h...

The Brothers Karamazov

One must not trifle with love.

Alfred de Musset

Women are used to worrying over trifles.

Susan Glaspell

Altamirano: The Garden of Eden! Gabriel: It's a trifle overgrown.

The Mission

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

Arthur Schopenhauer

It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.

Karl Pilkington

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

George A. Smith

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

Arthur Schopenhauer

The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.

Homer

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.

Jonathan Mayhew

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.

Alexander Smith

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

Queen Victoria

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 Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.

Mary Astell

Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.

Franklin Pierce