#trifles

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#shows #treatment #trifles

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#character #guard #his #man #off

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

— Wallace Stevens

#fill #full #furniture #how #more

You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#investigation #methods #mysteries #sherlock-holmes #trifles

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

— Samuel Richardson

#different #manhood #only #our #proportioned

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

— Alexander Smith

#human #human life #life #make #make up

He that shuns trifles must shun the world. ↗

— George Chapman

#shun #shuns #trifles #world

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

— Mark Akenside

#fantastic #imaginary #joys #painted #pursues

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

— Doris Lessing

#great people #important #important matters #mark #matters