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A trifle more of that man,'he would say,'and I shall explode. — Robert Louis Stevenson

We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us. — William Hazlitt

How wonderfully strange,' he thought, 'to be upset by this trifle; yet I am upset. — Patrick O'Brian

As for the fan, she agreed that it was a most amusing trifle: just what she would wish to buy for herself, if it had not been so excessively ugly! — Georgette Heyer

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth. — George A. Smith

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

I am satisfied to trifle away my time, rather than let it stick by me. — Alexander Pope

Who sail on stormy seas;
And that's the way I get my bread
A trifle, if you please. — Lewis Carroll

One must not trifle with love. — Alfred De Musset

The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others. — Homer

And that is why You do not trifle with the Master of the Domain. — Sherry Thomas

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us. — Blaise Pascal

Life is meaning less when you realized that you are about to die. Till then, everything negative however trifle they may be, depress you. — Ankur Basu Roy

He may have been a trifle wild. — Jacob A. Riis

Everything is a trifle to a man who is a Christian except the glorifying of Christ — Charles Spurgeon

In all my experience along the dirtiest ways of this dirty little world, I have never met with such a thing as a trifle yet. — Wilkie Collins

Any trifle is enough to entertain two lovers. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written. — Ed Greenwood

Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded. — Dwight L. Moody

The study of Nature is intercourse with the Highest Mind. You should never trifle with Nature. — Louis Agassiz

God requires a faithful fulfillment of the merest trifle given us to do, rather than the most ardent aspiration to things to which we are not called. — Saint Francis De Sales

I would lay down my life for America but I cannot trifle with my Honor. — John Paul Jones

A word, a look, an accent, may affect the destiny not only of individuals, but of nations. He is a bold man who calls anything a trifle. — Andrew Carnegie

He was a trifle embarrassed to be deserting his hard-won realism in order to follow what he thought was the dominant philosophical fashion. — Philip Zaleski

Probably every new and eagerly expected garment ever put on since clothes came in, fell a trifle short of the wearer's expectation. — Charles Dickens

A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance. — Sophocles

A trifle can be enough when luck is on your side. — Margi Preus

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

The weight of the world is a trifle, if we all put our two fingers under it and try to lift together. — Vera Nazarian

To trifle with Scripture is to deprive yourself of its aid. Reverence it, and look up to God with devout gratitude for having given it to you. — Charles Spurgeon

It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle. — Karl Pilkington

If Christ has died for me, I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

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

A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer ... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring. — E.B. White

Shall I redirect my life's journey because down some side road might be some trifle I'm entitled to? — Robert Breault

A trifle, a little, the likeness of a dream. And death comes as the end. — Agatha Christie

It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles. — Arthur Conan Doyle

We trifle with France and labour with Germany, we sentimentalize over Italy and ecstacise over Spain- but England we love. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

A person who can believe all the articles of the Christian faith is not going to boggle over a trifle of adverse evidence. — Dorothy L. Sayers

Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle? — James Branch Cabell

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

I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt. — Plautus

Trifles make perfection but perfection is not a trifle — Michelangelo

Alas, how love can trifle with itself! — William Shakespeare

These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor; This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome. — William Shakespeare

Figure to yourself what the year would sustain were the spring taken away: such a loss do they sustain who trifle in youth. — Lydia Sigourney

Fear is the strong passion; it is with fear that you must trifle, if you wish to taste the intensest joys of living. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Yet the laughter had a tinge of uneasiness about it, because this business about nineteen had gotten a trifle weird. — Stephen King

People don't want the debunk, they want the bunk,' Price once noted, a trifle acidly. He — Roger Clarke

Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved. — W. Somerset Maugham

What do you call a rifle with three barrels?
A trifle. — Joseph Rosenbloom

Revenge is a dish best served unexpectedly and from a distance - like a thrown trifle. — Frances Hardinge

Think naught a trifle, though it small appear:
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,
And trifles life.
— Edward Young

no matter how objectionable the character of a paper may be, it is always a trifle better than the patrons on whom it relies for its support. — Edward L. Bernays

We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none. — Christian Nestell Bovee

To venerate the simple days Which lead the seasons by, Needs but to remember That from you or I They may take the trifle Termed mortality! — Emily Dickinson

Oh, a pipe smoker," said Henry. "Well, that narrows it down." "Sometimes," said Doyle, "there is nothing so significant as a trifle. — Seth Grahame-Smith

I am not quite sober you know. In fact, I am drunk, but I cannot help feeling this is all a trifle, shall we say, irregular? — Georgette Heyer

Citizenship is no light trifle to be jeopardized any moment Congress decides to do so under the name of one of its general or implied grants of power. — Hugo Black

Everything belonged to him
but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own. — Joseph Conrad

At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense. — Alexander Pope

Ye're coming with me," he says again. "I think that's called kidnapping," I tell him. He shrugs. "Why trifle with labels? — A. Zavarelli

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

Being poor is a mere trifle. It is being known to be poor that is the sting. — Jerome K. Jerome

Details are but trifles, but details make for perfection, and perfection is no trifle. — Benjamin Franklin

Who gives a trifle meanly is meaner than the trifle. — Johann Kaspar Lavater

From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle. — Thomas Adams