Trifles Quotes - Page 12

• It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution.

  George Eliot

  Doctors, Constitution, Knows

  George Eliot (1858). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.98

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

  Horace

  Poetry, Substance, Verses

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• We shall be less apt to admire what this World calls Great, shall nobly despise those Trifles the generality of Men set their Affections on, when we know that there are a multitude of such Earths inhabited and adorned as Well as our own.

  Christiaan Huygens

  Men, World, Earth

  Christiaan Huygens (1722). “The Celestial Worlds Discover'd, Or, Conjectures Concerning the Inhabitants, Plants and Productions of the Worlds in the Planets”, p.13

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• Domestic matters are trifles for us. But they occupy the principal part of my life. They teach me to know my limitations.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Life, Matter, Teach

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• Fashion is so close in revealing a person's inner feelings and everybody seems to hate to lay claim to vanity so people tend to push it away. It's really too close to the quick of the soul. Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world's view of us. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live. Fashion should be a form of escapism, and not a form of imprisonment.

  Stella Blum

  Fashion, Hate, Vanity

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• A right rule for a club would be, Admit no man whose presence excludes any one topic. It requires people who are not surprised andshocked, who do and let do, and let be, who sink trifles, and know solid values, and who take a great deal for granted.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, People, Would Be

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2495, Delphi Classics

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• When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic trifles.

  Samuel Johnson

  Women, Solitude, Mind

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1857). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.177

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• Has there ever been an age so rife with neurotic sensibility, with that state of near shudders, or near hysteria, or near nausea, much of it induced by trifles, which used to belong to people who were at once ill-adjusted and over-civilized?

  Louis Kronenberger

  Hysteria, People, Age

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• Be brief, be pointed, let your matter standLucid in order, solid and at hand;Spend not your words on trifles but condense;Strike with the mass of thought, not drops of sense;Press to close with vigor, once begun,And leave, (how hard the task!) leave off, when done.

  Joseph Story

  Hands, Order, Matter

  Joseph Story (1851). “Life and Letters of Joseph Story: Edited by his son William W. Story. (Mit 1 Porträt.)”, p.88

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• Trifles make perfection but perfection is not a trifle

  Michelangelo

  Perfection

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• Heretics were most often bitterly persecuted for the their least deviation from accepted belief. It was precisely their obstinacy about trifles that irritated the righteous to madness.

  Lev Shestov

  Atheism, Irritated, Belief

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• Of those that spin out trifles and die without a memorial, many flatter themselves with high opinions of their own importance, and imagine that they are every day adding some improvement to human life.

  Samuel Johnson

  Memorial, Opinion, Improvement

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”

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• We make trifles of terrors,
  Ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge,
  When we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear.

  William Shakespeare

  Should, Terror, Submit

  1604-5 Lafeu. All'sWellThat EndsWell, act 2, sc.3, l.1-6.

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

  William Jenkyn

  Reality, Shadow, World

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• How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world about them. People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding. But magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And what is more, they find it everywhere.

  Van Wyck Brooks

  Motivational, Vanity, People

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• We [U.S.S.R. and U.S.A.] can exist peacefully together if we don't indulge in too much mutual fault-finding in all kinds of trifles.

  Joseph Stalin

  Indulge In, Together, Fault Finding

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• 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, Submission

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• All works, no matter what or by whom painted, are nothing but bagatelles and childish trifles... unless they are made and painted from life, and there can be nothing... better than to follow nature.

  Caravaggio

  Life, Art, Nature

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

  George Crabbe

  Lying, Deception, Deceit

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• I expected so much from life and if I had not seen it so close, I would to this day be expecting something. What treasures I discovered in my own soul - where are they all? I have exchanged them for the world's coin, given my frankness, my first passion - and for what? For bitter disillusionment, for the knowledge that all is deception, all is brittle, that one can place trust neither in oneself nor in others - and I have come to fear both others and myself. I have not been able, along with this analysis, to accept the trifles of life and be content with them, as many others do.

  Ivan Goncharov

  Passion, Soul, Deception

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

  Nas

  Rap, Hip Hop, Brain

  Song: The Genesis, Album: Illmatic

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

  Charles Spurgeon

  Space, Sublime, Littles

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

  Epictetus

  Motivational, Focus, World

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• Once we allow ourselves to do evil so that some perceived good may follow, we allow ever greater evils for the sake of ever more questionable goods, until we consent to the greatest evils for the sake of mere trifles.

  Benjamin Wiker

  Evil, May, Sake

  Benjamin Wiker (2008). “10 Books that Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help”, p.14, Regnery Publishing

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• I love the sound of snow... You can hear it even if you are only standing on a balcony. [The sound] is only minimal, not even a real noise: a breath, a trifle of a sound. You have the same thing in music: if in the score there is a pianissimo marked that ends in nothing. Up thee you can feel this 'nothing'. With an orchestra it is very difficult to achieve it. The Berlin Philharmonic manage it sometimes.

  Claudio Abbado

  Real, Snow, Sound

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