Spoiling Quotes

48 quotes by 47 authors

Enjoyment always has a spoiling, otherwise it cannot be so. — John Donne
In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom, especially if it has got to be carried into the market. — Joseph Conrad
The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their heads… — George Mikes
What an extraordinary time to be alive. We're the first people on our planet to have real choice: we can continue killing each other, wiping… — Frances Moore LappÃ©
And what do the Theban hoplites see in this extended rending of the sky, this white-bright glory of Enlil's lightning? The future, but not theirs:… — Janet Morris
The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it. — Diane Johnson
Our tools are better than we are, and grow better faster than we do. They suffice to crack the atom, to command the tides, but… — Aldo Leopold
The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it. — Aldo Leopold
Nothing is improved by anger, unless it be the arch of a cat's back. A man with his back up is spoiling his figure. People… — Charles Spurgeon
Disagreeing with the fervent patriotism of the Confederates: "I think it's hard winning a war with words, gentlemen. . . . I'm saying very plainly… — Clark Gable
The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction. — C.S. Lewis
I would have been completely brainwashed by this lopsided and racist view of the world if it weren't for my father. He was a deep… — Walter Mosley
While a modicum of consciousness may have had survivalist properties during an immemorial chapter of our evolution â€“ so one theory goes â€“ this faculty… — Thomas Ligotti
Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun. — Fred Saberhagen
To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after. — Karl Pilkington
Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war. This war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides, there… — Vivien Leigh
Albert is a very poor student. He is mentally slow, unsociable and is always daydreaming. He is spoiling it for the rest of the class.… — Albert Einstein
The last dregs of winter spoiling the taste of everything. — Katherine Paterson
In middle life, the human back is spoiling for a technical knockout and will use the flimsiest excuse, even a sneeze, to fall apart. — Elwyn Brooks White
By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we… — John Powell

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