Spoil Quotes

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for. (Epicurus)
We drink one another's health and spoil our own. View quote
Jerome K. Jerome
The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable. View quote
Fran Lebowitz
There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
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. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands we should only spoil it by trying to explain it. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun. View quote
Edward Young
If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
There are three ways to spoil a public man: women, gambling, and listening to experts. The first is the pleasantest, the second is the fastest, but the third is the most certain. View quote
Georges Pompidou
You can't let one bad moment spoil a bunch of good ones. (Dale Earnhardt)
If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch. View quote
Kingsley Amis
I don't have any desire to learn. I feel it's like a voodoo, that it would spoil things if I actually learnt how things are done. View quote
Paul McCartney
They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. View quote
Oscar Wilde
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. View quote
Bertrand Russell
I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them. View quote
Jane Austen
The father hesitated only a moment. He felt the vague pain in his chest. If I run, he thought, what will happen? Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts. And we've done fine tonight. Even Death can't spoil it. View quote
Ray Bradbury
The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
A painting is above all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. If, at a later stage, he wants to add two or three touches from nature, of course it doesn't spoil anything. View quote
Edgar Degas
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)
Tell me, pleez, my sawl, when will I live like human, that is, to work and not to be in need? Now I work, and I'm in need, and I spoil my reputation by the need to write bullshit. View quote
Anton Chekhov
So I think there is one rule every host and hostess ought to keep with the comb and nail file and bicarbonate and aromatic spirits on a handy shelf, Which is don't spoil the denouement by telling the guests everything is terrible, but let them have the thrill of finding it out for themselves. View quote
Ogden Nash
People derived too much pleasure from seeing their fellow man morally humiliated to spoil that pleasure by hearing out an explanation. View quote
Milan Kundera
There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. And how you misunderstand it! how you spoil it! You treat it as something solemn like a sacrament, or something to be bought, like a dress. View quote
Guy de Maupassant