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Spoil Quotes - Page 2

Spoilt pleasure is a sad, unseemly thing; you can only bury it.

Spoilt pleasure is a sad, unseemly thing; you can only bury it.

ELIZABETH BOWEN (1935). “The House in Paris”

Rich with the spoils of time.

1751 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, l.49-52.

If it were possible for me to alter any part of his plan, I could only spoil it.

John Newton (1824). “The Works of the Rev. John Newton ...”, p.212

To understand the stars would spoil their appearance.

Patrick White (2011). “Voss”, p.137, Random House

The victor belongs to the spoils.

The Beautiful and Damned epigraph (1922)

I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.

"Ross and Brand were astoundingly tasteless". Interview with Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2008.

That question is too good to spoil with an answer.

Harry Mulisch, Paul Vincent (1997). “The Discovery of Heaven”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

economy spoils pleasure

Giacomo Casanova (1997). “History of My Life”, p.173, JHU Press

Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.

François Lelord (2010). “Hector and the Search for Happiness”, p.104, Gallic Books

Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.

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