Top Trifles Quotes
It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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
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
He that shuns trifles must shun the world.
George Chapman
All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.
Samuel Richardson
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It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.
Arthur Schopenhauer 
58% of people like this quote
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
58% of people like this quote
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
58% of people like this quote
All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.
Samuel Richardson
55% of people like this quote
It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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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
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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
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Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
Alexander Smith
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Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys.
Mark Akenside
50% of people like this quote