Spoil Quotes - Page 13

• Knowledge often spoils devotion.

  Kate Horsley

  Devotion

  Kate Horsley (2002). “Confessions of a Pagan Nun: A Novel”, p.31, Shambhala Publications

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• Never betray His principles for any reason whatsoever, and take great care not to spoil God's affairs by too much haste in them.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Principles, Haste

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1992). “Correspondence, conferences, documents”, New City Pr

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• It takes some skill to spoil a breakfast - even the English can't do it.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Travel, Home, Skills

  John Kenneth Galbraith (1969). “Ambassador's Journal”

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• We drink [to] one another's health and spoil our own.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Drinking, Food, Health

  Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886) "On Eating and Drinking"

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• Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.

  Jean Cocteau

  Attitude, Mind, May

  Jean Cocteau (1966). “The Holy Terrors (Les Enfants Terribles)”, p.85, New Directions Publishing

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• magic persists without us no matter what we may do to try to spoil it

  Charles Bukowski

  Magic, Trying, May

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.317, Canongate Books

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• Google is the enemy. I would tell that to anyone who enjoys any TV show like 'Game of Thrones' to avoid it; it spoils so many storylines.

  Richard Madden

  Tv Shows, Games, Google

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Lessons learned are like bridges burned you only need to cross them but once. Is the knowledge gained worth the price of the pain, are the spoils worth the cost of the hunt?

  Dan Fogelberg

  Education, Pain, Bridges

  Song: Lessons Learned, Album: Nether Lands, 1977

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• My brother and I have too good a relationship to spoil it by working together.

  Trevor Phillips

  Brother, Working Together, Together

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• 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 with the heart's spoils.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Heart, Wrinkles, Youth

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• You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prophecies that were made of it - low, vulgar, meddling with everything, assuming universal competency, and flattering every base passion - and sneering at everything noble refined and truly national. The direct tyranny will come on by and by, after it shall have gratified the multitude with the spoil and ruin of the old institutions of the land.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Passion, Land, House

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• If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.

  Dante Alighieri

  Men, Generosity, Thieves

  Dante Alighieri (1879). “The 'De Monarchia' of Dante”

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• 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 great: Then lands were fairly portioned; Then spoils were fairly sold: The Romans were like brothers In the brave days of old.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Brother, Party, Men

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• 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 with judgments below our own, that the frequent spoils and victories over their reasons may settle in ourselves an esteem and confirmed opinion of our own.

  Thomas Browne

  Men, Victory, Desire

  1634-5 Religio Medici (published 1643), pt.1, section 6.

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• Rich with the spoils of nature.

  Thomas Browne

  Nature, Rich

  Sir Thomas Browne (1835). “Sir Thomas Browne's Works: Religio medici. Pseudoxia epidemica, books 1-3”, p.19

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• Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.

  Anatole France

  Confession, Repentance

  Anatole France (1911). “On Life & Letters”

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• Why should I spoil my mood by wearing an ugly suit?

  Bryan Ferry

  Ugly, Suits, Mood

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• It is not possible to 'spoil' a child with love and affection...a child needs all the love and affection it can possibly get.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Children, Needs, Affection

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• The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.

  Michel de Montaigne

  History, Meat, Middle

  Michel de Montaigne (1850). “Works, Comprising His Essays, Letters, and Journey Through Germany and Italy: With Notes from All the Commentators, Biographical and Bibliographical Notices &c., &c”, p.217

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• In the last year my wife has noticed me struggling to get downstairs on a Sunday morning. I've two young children and football has been so good to me over the years I don't want to spoil it.

  Graeme Le Saux

  Football, Morning, Children

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• Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.

  Russell Baker

  School, Poetry, Poetry Is

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• At the bottom of all these noble races the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of spoil and victory.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Race, Misunderstood, Victory

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.476, Modern Library

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• You see, no one can teach anybody. The teacher spoils everything by thinking that he is teaching. Thus Vedanta says that within man is all knowledge-even in a boy it is so-and it requires only an awakening, and that much is the work of a teacher.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Teacher, Teaching, Boys

  Swami Vivekananda “My Idea of Education”, Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math)

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• Do not procrastinate. Someone has said that procrastination is the thief of time. Actually, procrastination is much more. It is the thief of our self-respect. It nags at us and spoils our fun. It deprives us of the fullest realization of our ambitions and hopes.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Fun, Procrastination, Ambition

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• As there are three of us come on purpose for the game, you won't be so cantankerous as to spoil the party by sitting out.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Party, Games, Three

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Michael Cordner (2008). “The School for Scandal and Other Plays”, p.79, Oxford University Press

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