Spoils Quotes

118 Spoils quotes by 103 unique authors

No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils. — Elihu Root
I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation. — David Gilmour
Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched… — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Then none was for a party; Than all were for the state; Then the great man helped the poor, And the poor man loved the… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue… — Thomas Browne
Rich with the spoils of nature. — Thomas Browne
There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of… — Oscar Wilde
Nothing spoils a confession like repentance. — Anatole France
Throw a theory into the fire; it only spoils life. — Mikhail Bakunin
Travel spoils you for regular life. — Bill Barich
A particular disappointment is seldom more than an excrescence upon the trunk of a general good--a shower that spoils the pleasure party, but refreshes and… — Christian Nestell Bovee
Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty. — Louisa May Alcott
A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of… — Baltasar Gracian
The victor belongs to the spoils. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most… — W. Somerset Maugham
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for… — Will Rogers
Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better. — George Santayana
The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils. — William Shakespeare
Make them do as you want them to," she said. "I can’t," mourned Anne. "Averil is such an unmanageable heroine. She will do and say… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. — Leonardo da Vinci
The whole world might know you and acclaim you, but someone in the past, forever unreachable, forever unknowing, spoils it all. — Isaac Asimov
Conceit spoils the finest genius. — Louisa May Alcott
Nothing spoils idle pleasure like too much awareness — Jacqueline Carey
We have very primative emotions. It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though. — Ernest Hemingway
economy spoils pleasure — Giacomo Casanova

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