Trivial

Famous quotes containing the word trivial:

“My weakness has always been to prefer the large intention of an unskilful artist to the trivial intention of an accomplished one: in other words, I am more interested in the high ideas of a feeble executant than in the high execution of a feeble thinker.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

“Let a man take time enough for the most trivial deed, though it be but the paring of his nails.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)