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
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
Alexander Smith
It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
Arthur Schopenhauer
It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
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
It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
Doris Lessing
The 370-year-old antique shop Trifles and Folly is the heart of 'Deadly Curiosities,' my new urban fantasy novel from Solaris Books.
Gail Z. Martin
He that shuns trifles must shun the world.
George Chapman
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
In school, I couldn't see any sense to reading, writing, and arithmetic. Sure, they kicked me out, but for trifles, like continual daydreaming and smoking, that wouldn't be grounds for expulsion nowadays.
Lee Marvin
Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys.
Mark Akenside
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
Michelangelo
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, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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.
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
Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
Samuel Johnson
All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.
Samuel Richardson
Women are used to worrying over trifles.
Susan Glaspell
A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.
Thomas Sprat