Top 193 Trifles Quotes & Sayings

Hatred like love feeds on the merest trifles.

Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.

Men are led by trifles.

Pay attention even to life's trifles.

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

Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles.

The unbelief of the age is attested by the loud condemnation of trifles.

We must not stand upon trifles.

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

Winter does not work only on a broad scale; he is careful in trifles.

Trifles discover a character, more than actions of importance.

Of all trifles, titles are the lightest.

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of mortal life.

Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world… Focus on your main duty

Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.

Affection, like melancholy, magnifies trifles.

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

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles.

One should not exaggerate the importance of trifles. Life, for instance, is much too short to be taken seriously.

O jealousy! thou magnifier of trifles.

Man shows his character best in trifles.

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

Men are lead by trifles.

Delude not yourself with the notion that you may be untrue and uncertain in trifles and in important things the contrary. Trifles make up existence, and give the observer the measure by which to try us; and the fearful power of habit, after a time, suffers not the best will to ripen into action.

In mortals there is a care for trifles which proceeds from love and conscience, and is most holy; and a care for trifles which comes of idleness and frivolity, and is most base. And so, also, there is a gravity proceeding from thought, which is most noble; and a gravity proceeding from dulness and mere incapability of enjoyment, which is most base.

Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns.

Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity.

Character demonstrates itself in trifles.

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

Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and space.

You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles.

Cities degrade us by magnifying trifles.

Trifles lighter than straws are levers in the building up of character.

It is folly to waste labour about trifles.

Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory.

I have seldom known a person who deserted the truth in trifles and then could be trusted in matters of importance.

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

One cannot permit unique opportunities to slip by for the sake of trifles.

Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.

Guilt agonizes over trifles, ignores habitual wrongdoing.

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

These trifles will lead to serious mischief. [Lat., Hae nugae seria ducent In mala.]

There is an alchemy of quiet malice by which women can concoct a subtle poison from ordinary trifles.

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

Are we not rude and deserve blame, if we leave Him alone, to busy ourselves about trifles, which do not please Him and perhaps offend Him? 'Tis to be feared these trifles will one day cost us dear.

Trifles, trifles are what matter!

He that shuns trifles must shun the world.

There is only one Christ, Jesus, one faith. All else is a dispute over trifles.

He who trifles with truth cuts at the root of Ahimsa [non-violence]. He who is angry is guilty of Himsa.

Trifles make the sum of life.

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

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

They whom trifles distract and nothing occupies are but children.

Women are used to worrying over trifles.

When the mind has once begun to yield to the weakness of superstition, trifles impress it with the force of conviction.

All big things are made up of trifles. My entire life has been built on trifles.

Small minds are captivated by trifles.

Boston was a moral and intellectual nursery, always busy applying first principles to trifles.

It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.

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