“you seem to be displaying signs of triviality.”

“You should treat the trivial things in life seriously and the serious things in life with a sincere and studied triviality”

“To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.”

“We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.”

“It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously”

“Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.”

“Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.”