Spoiling Quotes
48 quotes by 47 authors
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Enjoyment always has a spoiling, otherwise it cannot be so.
— John Donne
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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
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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
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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 Lappé
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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
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The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it.
— Diane Johnson
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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
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The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.
— Aldo Leopold
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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
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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
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The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction.
— C.S. Lewis
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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
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While a modicum of consciousness may have had survivalist properties during an immemorial chapter of our evolution – so one theory goes – this faculty…
— Thomas Ligotti
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Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun.
— Fred Saberhagen
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
— Karl Pilkington
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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
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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
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The last dregs of winter spoiling the taste of everything.
— Katherine Paterson
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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
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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
Who Wrote These Spoiling Quotes
47 authors contributed a total of 48 Spoiling Quotes, led by these top contributors: