Top 25 Trifles Quotes of 54

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

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

Susan Glaspell

Different, Kind, Trifles

Susan Glaspell, C. W. E. Bigsby (1987). “Plays by Susan Glaspell”, p.44, Cambridge University Press

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

Alexander Pope

Pride, Littles, Trifles

Alexander Pope (2015). “An Essay on Criticism”, p.13, Sheba Blake Publishing

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

Philosophical, Treatment, Trifles

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

John Paul Jones

America, Honor, Trifles

"Rare letters from father of US Navy surface in South Carolina". www.foxnews.com. July 4, 2013.

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

Darkness, Heart Of Darkness, Trifles

Joseph Conrad (2012). “Heart of Darkness: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.60, Penguin

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

Blaise Pascal

Trifles, Distress, Console

"Pensées".

Trifles make perfection but perfection is not a trifle

Michelangelo

Perfection, Trifles

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Men, Kind, Trifles

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Linda Allardt (1982). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.97, Harvard University Press

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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Aspect, Trifles, Concern

O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.

Friedrich Schiller

Jealousy, Envy, Trifles

Friedrich Schiller (1849). “Early Dramas and Romances”, p.135

Trifles make the sum of life.

Charles Dickens

Words Of Wisdom, Classic, Trifles

David Copperfield ch. 53 (1850)

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

Arthur Conan Doyle

Memories, Trifles, Reader

Arthur Conan Doyle (2005). “The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Novels (Slipcased Edition)”, p.92, W. W. Norton & Company

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

Wallace Stevens

Rooms, Furniture, Trifles

"Souvenirs and Prophecies: the Young Wallace Stevens" edited by Holly Stevens, (Ch. 9), 1977.

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

Thomas Sprat

Married, Proportion, Trifles

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

Nicolas Chamfort

Fool, Trifles, Wells

Men are led by trifles.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Men, Trifles

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles.

Leigh Hunt

Affection, Melancholy, Trifles

Leigh Hunt, Thornton Leigh Hunt (1862). “The Correspondence of Leigh Hunt”, p.31, London : Smith, Elder

Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles.

Honore de Balzac

Like Love, Hatred, Trifles

He that shuns trifles must shun the world.

George Chapman

World, Trifles

George Chapman, Algernon Charles Swinburne (1875). “The Works of George Chapman: Poems and Minor Translations”, p.70

One must not trifle with love

Alfred de Musset

Love, 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.

William Allingham

Sea, Gravity, Trifles

William Allingham (1907). “William Allingham: a diary”