Top 136 Trifle Quotes & Sayings

The weight of the world is a trifle, if we all put our two fingers under it and try to lift together.

Everything is a trifle to a man who is a Christian except the glorifying of Christ

One must not trifle with love

I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me.

It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.

Proofs of the Euclidean [parallel] postulate can be developed to such an extent that apparently a mere trifle remains. But a careful analysis shows that in this seeming trifle lies the crux of the matter; usually it contains either the proposition that is being proved or a postulate equivalent to it.

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

One must not trifle with love.

Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation.

I cannot bear to associate with the ordinary run of people. I have to surround myself with individuals who for the most part are more than a trifle insane

Street's disciple, my raps are trifle. I shoot slugs from my brain just like a rifle.

A smile flickered across Coral’s face. “Have you ever noticed that once you have had a taste of certain sweets—raspberry trifle is my own despair—it is quite impossible not to think, not to want, not to crave until you have taken another bite?” “Lord Swartingham is not a raspberry trifle.” “No, more of a dark chocolate mousse, I should think,” Coral murmured. “And,” Anna continued as if she hadn’t heard the interruption, “I don’t need another bite, uh,night of him.

Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle?

Shall I redirect my life's journey because down some side road might be some trifle I'm entitled to?

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

Alas, how love can trifle with itself!

Citizenship is no light trifle to be jeopardized any moment Congress decides to do so under the name of one of its general or implied grants of power.

A word, a look, an accent, may affect the destiny not only of individuals, but of nations. He is a bold man who calls anything a trifle.

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.

It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.

A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.

Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at all.

We invented the Black Forest trifle. It's got all the flavours of the Black Forest Gateau but in a trifle, using chocolate custard. You've got your kirsch, your cherries, the chocolate custard, the sponge and the cream.

People only ever cook nine meals in rotation, so we put a survey out to see what people wanted to eat. People said they loved a Bakewell tart and a trifle, so we've put them together, and now a recipe for Bakewell trifle exists.

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

Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.

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

The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.

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

Beware how you trifle with your marvelous inheritance, this great land of ordered liberty, for if we stumble and fall, freedom and civilization everywhere will go down in ruin.

Any trifle is enough to entertain two lovers.

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

To trifle with Scripture is to deprive yourself of its aid. Reverence it, and look up to God with devout gratitude for having given it to you.

These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor; This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome.

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

Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; Small stands the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life.

To forsake Christ for the world, is to leave a treasure for a trifle, eternity for a moment, reality for a shadow

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.

The bowl landed, in glorious perfection, atop the head of Mrs Barnaclegoose, who was not the kind of woman to appreciate the finer points of being crowned by trifle.

From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs.

These great turning-days of life cast no shadow before, slip by unconsciously. Only a trifle, a little turn of the rudder, and the ship goes to heaven or hell.

The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable.

Deceivers are the most dangerous members of society. They trifle with the best affections of our nature, and violate the most sacred obligations.

Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot pretend they have won when they have lost nor that they had a magnificent drive when they foozled it. The Englishman is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

The Barry Goldwater movement excited the depths because the apocalypse was brought more near, and like millions of other whites, I had been leading a life which was a trifle too pointless and a trifle too full of guilt and my gullet was close to nausea with the empty promises of an empty liberal center.

Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.

To venerate the simple days Which lead the seasons by, Needs but to remember That from you or I They may take the trifle Termed mortality!

The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature.

A trifle can be enough when luck is on your side.

Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living.

Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.

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

Who sail on stormy seas; And that's the way I get my bread -- A trifle, if you please.

Figure to yourself what the year would sustain were the spring taken away: such a loss do they sustain who trifle in youth.

Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle.

I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.

By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that.

Sin has been pardoned at such a price that we cannot henceforth trifle with it.

God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to which we are not called.