quotes about Trifles
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I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.
-- Alexander Pope -
At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.
-- Alexander Pope -
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You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.
-- Blaise Pascal -
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All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted from life, and there can be nothing... better than to follow nature.
-- Caravaggio -
Sin has been pardoned at such a price that we cannot henceforth trifle with it.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton -
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O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.
-- Friedrich Schiller -
It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.
-- George Eliot -
Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]
-- Horace -
Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.
-- Jerome K. Jerome -
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Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.
-- Johann Kaspar Lavater -
They whom trifles distract and nothing occupies are but children.
-- John Lancaster Spalding -
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 their own.
-- Joseph Conrad -
Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles.
-- Leigh Hunt -
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Character demonstrates itself in trifles.
-- Louise Imogen GuineySource : Louise Imogen Guiney (1885). “Goose-quill Papers”
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There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.
-- Nicolas Chamfort -
nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another person display theirs.
-- Ouida -
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Out of many things a great heap will be formed. [Lat., De multis grandis acervus erit.]
-- Ovid -
A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.
-- Thomas Sprat -
It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.
-- Wendell Phillips -
I have been an "Official" all my life, without the least turn for it. I never could attain a true official manner, which is highly artificial and handles trifles with ludicrously disproportionate gravity.
-- William Allingham -
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Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.
-- George A. Smith -
I would lay down my life for America but I cannot trifle with my Honor.
-- John Paul JonesSource : "Rare letters from father of US Navy surface in South Carolina". www.foxnews.com. July 4, 2013.
