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

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

Doris Lessing

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

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

He that shuns trifles must shun the world.

George Chapman

A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humors 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, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Michelangelo

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

Queen Victoria

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.

Alexander Smith

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, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

The 370-year-old antique shop Trifles and Folly is the heart of 'Deadly Curiosities,' my new urban fantasy novel from Solaris Books.

Gail Z. Martin

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

Mark Akenside

A great proportion of the wretchedness which has embittered married life, has originated in a negligence of trifles.

Thomas Sprat

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

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.

Samuel Richardson

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

How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.

Wallace Stevens

How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.

Richard Burton