Trifles Quotes - Page 14

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

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sin, Has Beens

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 32: Sermons 1877-1937”, p.684, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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

  Thomas Adams

  Inspirational, Passion, Cost

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• Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this wondrous age of change and progress.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Change, Should Have, Progress

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.3719, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Sea, Gravity, Turns

  William Allingham (1907). “William Allingham: a diary”

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• Murder in the murderer is no such ruinous thought as poets and romancers will have it; it does not unsettle him, or fright him from his ordinary notice of trifles; it is an act quite easy to be contemplated.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Ordinary, Doe, Murder

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.243, Harvard University Press

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• 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.

  E. B. White

  Inspiring, Heaven, Trying

  E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.117, Cornell University Press

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• Give Me Strength This is my prayer to thee, my lord---strike, strike at the root of penury in my heart. Give me the strength lightly to bear my joys and sorrows. Give me the strength to make my love fruitful in service. Give me the strength never to disown the poor or bend my knees before insolent might. Give me the strength to raise my mind high above daily trifles. And give me the strength to surrender my strength to thy will with love.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Prayer, Heart, Roots

  Rabindranath Tagore (2013). “Gitanjali - Song Offerings”, p.36, Read Books Ltd

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• 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.

  Elizabeth Hoyt

  Sweet, Taken, Dark

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

  Nicolas Bentley

  Life, Taken, Too Short

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• If there were two princes in Christendom who had good will and courage, it would be very easy to reconcile the religious difficulties; there is only one Jesus Christ and one faith, and all the rest is a dispute over trifles.

  Elizabeth I

  Religious, Jesus, Two

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• Do not let trifles disturb your tranquility of mind. . . . Life is too precious to be sacrificed for the nonessential and transient. . . . Ignore the inconsequential!

  Grenville Kleiser

  Mind, Life Is, Tranquility

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• When a doctor arrives to attend some patient of the working class, he ought not to feel his pulse the moment he enters, as is nearly always done without regard to the circumstances of the man who lies sick; he should not remain standing while he considers what he ought to do, as though the fate of a human being were a mere trifle; rather let him condescend to sit down for awhile.

  Bernardino Ramazzini

  Lying, Fate, Men

  Bernardino Ramazzini (1983). “Diseases of workers”

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• Persons of rank do not talk about such trifles as the common people do; but the common people do not busy themselves about such frivolous things as do persons of rank.

  Luc de Clapiers

  People, Common, Busy

  "Reflections and Maxims". Book by Luc de Clapiers, 1746.

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