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Quotes About Trivial

What affects useless singularities has surely a little mind.
~ lavater johann kaspar ii
seemed like small potatoes.
~ Lemony Snicket
Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant!
~ Leo Tolstoy
One likes to hear what is going on, to be au fait as to the newest modes of being trifling and silly.
~ Jane Austen
Choice is more than picking 'x' over 'y.' It is a responsibility to separate the meaningful and the uplifting from the trivial and the disheartening. It is the only tool we have that enables us to go from who we are today to who we want to be tomorrow.
~ Sheena Iyengar
I always said God was against art and I still believe it. Anything obscene or trivial is blessed in this world and has a reward - I ask for no reward - only to live & to hear my work.
~ Edward Elgar
He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression...
~ Oscar Wilde
I talk so trivially about life because I think that life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.
~ Oscar Wilde
you seem to be displaying signs of triviality.
~ Oscar Wilde
He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression, or when some thought that terrifies us lays sudden siege to the brain and calls on us to yield.
~ Oscar Wilde
Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance.
~ Oscar Wilde
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies
~ Oscar Wilde
What on earth you are serious about I haven't got the remotest idea.  About everything, I should fancy.  You have such an absolutely trivial nature.
~ Oscar Wilde
He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afriad.
~ Oscar Wilde
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies. And
~ Oscar Wilde
The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.
~ Erich Fromm
has sadly deprived our language of many of the fertile and resonant words which the Englishman of prior centuries had at his disposal. "Argufy" is one such; the dictionary defines it as "to argue or quarrel, typically about something trivial." Certainly we have all seen occasions where innocuous subjects are "argufied"; an
~ Whit Stillman
Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits. It works in the minutest crannies and it opens out the widest vistas.
~ William James
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
~ Henry Clay
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the gratefully and appreciating heart.
~ Henry Clay
I'm constantly around people that talk a lot but say nothing. A sad case.
~ Henry Rollins
To speak of it would be giving importance to something that has none.
~ Leo Tolstoy
If you only knew what those society women are, and women in general! My father is right. Selfish, vain, stupid, trivial in everything—that's what women are when you see them in their true colors! When you meet them in society it seems as if there were something in them, but there's nothing, nothing, nothing! No, don't marry, my dear fellow; don't marry!
~ Leo Tolstoy
mi trabajo desigual y sin arte tan pronto era sublime como trivial, como debe serio el de cualquiera que sólo posee arranques de genio y no se halla sostenido por la ciencia.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau