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(E)very genuine act or word, no matter how trifling it seems, leaves a sweet and strengthening influence behind
— Louisa May Alcott
A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.
— George Bernard Shaw
I only wanted to suggest to you that self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are trifling.
— W. Somerset Maugham
We never pay anyone Dane-geld, no matter how trifling the cost. For the end of that game is oppression and shame and the nation that plays it is lost!
— Rudyard Kipling
Those girls are trifling," DeNice said.
— Rainbow Rowell
Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Though so trifling, the success of our first Buffalo hunt gave us quite a social lift.
— Ernest Thompson Seton
Alas! the joys that fortune bringsAre trifling, and decay,
And those who prize the trifling things,
More trifling still than they. — Oliver Goldsmith
To a philosopher no circumstance, however trifling, is too minute.
— Oliver Goldsmith
There is no praise we have not lavished upon prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trifling event.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
To give importance to trifling matters.
— John Heywood
None so nearly disposed to scoffing at religion as those who have accustomed themselves to swear on trifling occasions.
— John Tillotson
True lovers know how trifling a thing is money yet how difficult to blend with love!
— Honore De Balzac
They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Fame is a skittish jade, more fickle even than Fortune, and apt to shy, and bolt, and plunge away on very trifling causes.
— Anthony Trollope
Phantoms in general are nothing more than trifling disorders of the spirit; images we cannot contain within the bounds of sleep.
— Luigi Pirandello
Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price.
— Plutarch
It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
not important, trifling
— William Strunk Jr.
To the thinker, the most trifling external object often suggests ideas, which, like Homer's chain, extend, link after link, from earth to heaven.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
And therefore wishing to break a habit I was getting into of prattling, punning, and joking, which only made me acceptable to trifling company,
— Benjamin Franklin
Against the day of sorrowLay by some trifling thing
A smile, a kiss, a flower,
For sweet remembering — Georgia Douglas Johnson
Mere imagination would indeed be mere trifling; only no imagination is mere .
— Charles Sanders Peirce
Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered.
— Giovanni Ruffini
I discovered there was an endless source of robust enjoyment in trifling with psychiatrists.
— Vladimir Nabokov
The pettiest and slightest nuisances are the most acute; and as small letters hurt and tire the eyes most, so do trifling matters sting us most.
— Michel De Montaigne
If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things?
— George S. Clason
It is strange how the memory of a man may float to posterity on what he would have himself regarded as the most trifling of his works.
— William Osler
Trifling employments have rendered woman a trifler.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak; She could not think, but would not cease to speak.
— George Crabbe
My pains are but trifling things compared to my joy.
— Karen Cushman
Genius is not a retainer to any emperor, or is its material silver, or gold, or marble, except to a trifling extent.
— Henry David Thoreau
Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.
— Franklin Pierce
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
Contentions for trifles can get but a trifling victory.
— Philip Sidney
There is something in the decay of nature that awakens thought, even in the most trifling mind.
— Sarah Josepha Hale
It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme.
— William Cowper
Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.
— Benjamin Franklin
Who values gold above all, considers all else as trifling.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
The man who is not yet wholly dead to self, is soon tempted, and is overcome in small and trifling matters.
— Thomas A Kempis
There is no real education that does not respond to felt need; anything else acquired is trifling display.
— Allan Bloom
Trifling trouble find utterance; deeply felt pangs are silent.
— Seneca The Younger
When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
— Yann Martel
However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.
— Herbert Spencer
One likes to hear what is going on, to be au fait as to the newest modes of being trifling and silly.
— Jane Austen
Please stop trifling.
— Albert Camus
