Spoilt Quotes

• I call on those that call me son, Grandson, or great-grandson, On uncles, aunts, great-uncles or great-aunts, To judge what I have done. Have I, that put it into words, Spoilt what old loins have sent?

  William Butler Yeats

  Uncles, Son, Aunt

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.329, Simon and Schuster

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• My father lived by the philosophy, 'Be yourself, because everyone else is taken,' and he made sure I did, too. Whatever I wanted to do, he supported me. I don't mean that I was spoilt - he didn't believe in material gifts - but he watched my back while I worked to achieve things.

  Tommy Lee

  Being Yourself, Father, Philosophy

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• It's difficult working with very rich actors, because inevitably they become a little spoilt, and the managers and agents tend to control things more than is healthy.

  Mike Figgis

  Healthy, Actors, Agents

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• I'm a spoilt brat. I thought I was just going to walk in and make movies. But I'd been my own boss for so long that all of a sudden to be facing a roomful of people who were niggling over every little scene... I just thought I'd go back and draw my comics and have a happy life.

  Frank Miller

  Happy Life, People, Long

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• But I'm kind of spoilt when it comes to comedy. I was on 'Friends', which was one of the funniest things on television.

  Matt LeBlanc

  Television, Comedy, Kind

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• When you're the youngest and the only boy, you get spoilt but you get told you're spoilt so you don't get to enjoy it very much. I was the only man in the house because my parents divorced and my dad moved away when I was 13.

  Eddie Marsan

  Dad, Men, Boys

  "Eddie Marsan: 'There's no great mystery to acting'". Interview with Elzabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2010.

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• There's a big difference between being privileged and being spoilt. My parents always said, 'Spoilt means ruined, and you're not ruined, just incredibly fortunate.'

  Tamara Ecclestone

  Mean, Differences, Parent

  "Tamara Ecclestone: I'm just a normal girl who happens to be worth £3billion". www.mirror.co.uk. January 9, 2012.

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• My dogs are spoilt for sure. They are pampered pooches. But I love them so much! I guess all dogs need to be washed, but maybe blueberry facials aren't essential. It's quite fun, though. You want to give your children everything; I don't have children, so I want my dogs to have a good life.

  Tamara Ecclestone

  Dog, Children, Fun

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• I feel like a spoilt rapper. I get to pick and choose everything.

  Eminem

  Rapper, Feels, Picks

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• Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.

  Paul Gauguin

  Art, Excellent, Cooks

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.

  Epicurus

  Being Happy, Thankful, Hope

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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• Beautiful, Glorious Scotland, has spoilt me for every other country.

  Mary Todd Lincoln

  Beautiful, Country, Scotland

  Justin G. Turner, Linda Levitt Turner, Mary Todd Lincoln (1972). “Mary Todd Lincoln: her life and letters”, Random House Inc

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• This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires, and, therefore, of his personality; and his radical ingratitude towards all that has made possible the ease of his existence. These traits together make up the well-known psychology of the spoilt child.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Children, Men, Two

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• Just as iron which is not used grows rusty, and water putrefies and freezes in the cold, so the mind of which no use is made is spoilt.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Iron, Water, Mind

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.19, eKitap Projesi

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• If, however, you are indulgent, but unable to make your authority felt; kind-hearted, but unable to enforce your commands; and incapable, moreover, of quelling disorder: then your soldiers must be likened to spoilt children; they are useless for any practical purpose.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, Children, War

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.24, Lulu.com

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• I used to comfort myself with the belief that it was only certain individuals and their peculiar notions that spoilt things for the rest of us. But how many individuals does it take before it's not the individuals who are prejudiced but society itself?

  Malorie Blackman

  Comfort, Doe, Noughts And Crosses

  Malorie Blackman (2007). “Black & White”, p.367, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm afraid that whatever I touch is spoilt by the contact." "I'm not scared of being spoiled," Val said.

  Holly Black

  Scared, Spoiled, Said

  Holly Black (2012). “Valiant”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• I greatly doubt whether the men who become pirate chiefs are those who are filled with retrospective terror of their fathers, or whether Napoleon , at Austerlitz, really felt that he was getting even with Madame Mère. I know nothing of the mother of Attila , but I rather suspect that she spoilt the little darling, who subsequently found the world irritating because it sometimes resisted his whims.

  Bertrand Russell

  Mother, Father, Men

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Power: A New Social Analysis”, p.32, Routledge

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• The soul can never be corrupted with the corruption of the body, but it is like the wind which causes the sound of the organ, and which ceases to produce a good effect when a pipe is spoilt.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Wind, Soul, Sound

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.80, eKitap Projesi

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• No, there is now no circumstance known in which it can be affirmed that microscopic beings came into the world without germs, without parents similar to themselves. Those who affirm it have been duped by illusions, by ill-conducted experiments, spoilt by errors that they either did not perceive or did not know how to avoid.

  Louis Pasteur

  Errors, Parent, World

  Address at the "Sorbonne Scientific Soirée" on April 7, 1864. "The Life of Pasteur". Book by René Vallery-Radot, translated by R .L. Devonshire, p. 142, archive.org. 1902.

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• The longer I live, the more it grieves me to see man, who occupies his supreme place for the very purpose of imposing his will upon nature, and freeing himself and his from an outrageous necessity--to see him taken up with some false notion, and doing just the opposite of what he wants to do; and then, because the whole bent of his mind is spoilt, bungling miserably over everything.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Taken, Men, Grieving

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1893). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.32, Library of Alexandria

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• I do the final fitting because the client wants me there. They're not spoilt, they really understand that you're very busy, but they just want you to say what you think - for just ten minutes. They really want to know your opinion because it really is a service at the end of the day, a luxury service.

  Riccardo Tisci

  Thinking, Luxury, The End Of The Day

  Source: www.dazeddigital.com

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• Salt represents the civilized: it requires know-how to get it, and a sophisticated combination of cooking and spoilt, jaded appetites to need it.

  Margaret Visser

  Cooking, Needs, Salt

  Margaret Visser (2010). “Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Mea”, p.76, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I've definitely been spoilt. Every movie I've done, it's always the same criteria: finding a great story, and finding a great part to play.

  Alden Ehrenreich

  Play, Stories, Done

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• Spoilt is a euphemism for loved.

  James Nesbitt

  Euphemism

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