Trifles Quotes

You know my method. It is founded upon the observance of trifles. - Arthur Conan Doyle Sr.

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

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along lifes pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. - Joseph Addison

We must strive for freedom if we strive for self-knowledge. The task of self-knowledge and of further self-development is of such importance and seriousness, it demands such intensity of effort, that to attempt it any old way and amongst other things is impossible. The person who undertakes this task must put it first in his life, which is not so long that he can afford to squander it on trifles. - George Gurdjieff

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life. - Alexander Smith

Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle. - Michelangelo

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

To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine. - Alan Watts

There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ù it shall go ringing on through the ages. - William Morley Punshon

The sensibility of man to trifles, and his insensibility to great things, indicates a strange inversion. - Blaise Pascal