Best 21 quotes in «trifles quotes» category

Out of what trifles grow the tragedies of life.

Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

It is folly to waste labour about 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.

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

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

Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.

O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.

Trifles make the sum of life.

Trifles, trifles are what matter!

Things fit only to give weight to smoke.

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

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