Trifles Quotes

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

Revolutions are not about trifles, but they spring from trifles. - Aristotle

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

Men are lead by trifles. - Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles. - Samuel Johnson

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

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