(36 quotes found)
“For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.”
Aristotle
“I know what I wanted to ask you;/ Is trifle sufficient for sweet?”
John Betjeman
“In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.”
“Employ oneself upon trifling professional matters which others could do.”
James Wyatt
“We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.”
William Hazlitt
“It chills my blood to hear the blest Supreme Rudely appealed to on each trifling theme”
William Cowper
