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Trifles Quotes

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

A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.
Lord Chesterfield

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.
Samuel Richardson

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

He that shuns trifles must shun the world.
George Chapman

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

How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.
Richard Burton

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

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

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

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

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
Samuel Johnson

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

Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys.
Mark Akenside

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.
Charles Horton Cooley

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
Michelangelo

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

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.
Joseph Addison

Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.
Philip Stanhope

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