Of how much real happiness we cheat our souls by preferring a trifle to God! We have a general intention of living religion; but we intend to begin tomorrow or next year. The present moment we prefer giving to the world.
Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.
Trifles make up the happiness or the misery of human life.
The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles.
We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
My secret indulgent food is dessert. I have an incredible sweet tooth - chocolate pudding with vanilla ice-cream or trifle and pavlova. I do love dessert.
Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.
It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
The 370-year-old antique shop Trifles and Folly is the heart of 'Deadly Curiosities,' my new urban fantasy novel from Solaris Books.
Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.
