Best 21 quotes in «trifles quotes» category

Out of what trifles grow the tragedies of life.

In all my experience along the dirtiest ways of this dirty little world, I have never met with such a thing as a trifle yet.

The affair seems absurdly trifling, and yet I dare call nothing trivial when I reflect that some of my most classic cases have had the least promising commencement. You will remember, Watson, how the dreadful business of the Abernetty family was first brought to my notice by the depth which the parsley had sunk into the butter upon a hot day.

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

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

Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory.

If Christ has died for me, I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend.

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.

It is folly to waste labour about trifles.

It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.

Locke, whom there is no reason to suspect of being a favorer of idleness or libertinism, has advanced that whoever hopes to employ any part of his time with efficacy and vigor must allow some of it to pass with trifles.

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

O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.

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.

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

Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.

Things fit only to give weight to smoke.

Revenge is a dish best served unexpectedly and from a distance - like a thrown trifle.

There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.

Trifles make the sum of life.

Trifles, trifles are what matter!