Trifles Quotes

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

Life, Good, Sunshine

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

Person, Shows, Treatment

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

Best, Character, Off

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

Great, Knowledge, Might

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
Michelangelo

Perfection, Trifle

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

Forward, Serious, Sense

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

Great, Calm, Quiet

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

Great, Important, Treat

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

Different, Childhood, Manhood

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

Life, Power, Open

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

Everything, Thoughts, Full

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

Life, Happiness, Human

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

Life, Important, Strange

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

Life, True, Turn

He that shuns trifles must shun the world.
George Chapman

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

Government, Political, Learned

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

Women, Forward, Children

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

Fantastic, Imaginary, Toys

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

Life, Great, Married

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