Trifles Quotes

We all go through the same things - it's all just a different kind of the same thing.

At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.

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

I would lay down my life for America but I cannot trifle with my Honor.

A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us.

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.

I am an omnivorous reader with a strangely retentive memory for trifles.

O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.

There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle.

Trifles make perfection but perfection is not a trifle

It is always a sign of an unproductive time when it concerns itself with petty and technical aspects [in philology], and likewiseit is a sign of an unproductive person to pursue such trifles.

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles.

A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.

Trifles make the sum of life.

How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.

One must not trifle with love

There some trifles well habited, as there are some fools well clothed.

Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles.

Out of many things a great heap will be formed. [Lat., De multis grandis acervus erit.]

He that despiseth small things will perish by little and little.

The smallest hair throws its shadow. [Ger., Das kleinste Harr wirft seinen Schatten.]

These trifles will lead to serious mischief. [Lat., Hae nugae seria ducent In mala.]

Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.

Man shows his character best in trifles.

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

Trifles, trifles are what matter!

I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.

He that shuns trifles must shun the world.

Men are led by trifles.

Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting.

It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.

Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

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.

Cracks make caves collapse.

Sin has been pardoned at such a price that we cannot henceforth trifle with it.

Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory.

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.

Of all trifles, titles are the lightest.

Let us not overlook vital things, because of the bulk of trifles confronting us.

Alas, how love can trifle with itself!

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.

It is folly to waste labour about trifles.

Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.

We make trifles of terrors, Ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge, When we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.

Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]

Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing.

They whom trifles distract and nothing occupies are but children.

Character demonstrates itself in trifles.

We must not stand upon trifles.

I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.