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Spoil Quotes - Page 3

No praying, it spoils business.

No praying, it spoils business.

Thomas Otway
Business, Praying, Spoil
'Venice Preserved' (1682) act 2, l. 87

Some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Praise, Spoiled
Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.56, Courier Corporation

The inability to listen and to depict in the countenance what others have said has spoiled many a good actress.

Julia Marlowe
Inability, Actresses, Spoiled

Women ought not to know their own wit, because they will still be showing it, and so spoil it.

John Selden
Wit, Spoil, Stills
John Selden, Richard Milward (1689). “Table Talk: Being the Discourses of John Selden”, p.152

Spoilt is a euphemism for loved.

James Nesbitt
Euphemism, Spoilt

Really. I'd love to be spoiled on by others.

Izabella Scorupco
Spoiled

You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.

Iain Glen
Actors, Percentages, Spoilt
"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

The only man who wasn't spoilt by being lionized was Daniel.

Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Men, Idols, Spoilt

I never learned to cook; I was a little spoiled as far as that's concerned.

Hector Elizondo
Littles, Spoiled, Cooks
"Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

I am spoiled, it's true. I don't even know how to use that thing in the kitchen with the burners.

Cindy Margolis
Kitchen, Use, Spoiled

I probably lead a very spoiled life, because I travel from people interested in permaculture to people interested in permaculture. Some of them are tribal, and some of them are urban, and so on.

Bill Mollison
People, Urban, Spoiled
"Permaculture: Design For Living". Interview with Alan AtKisson, www.context.org. 1991.

God created Adam lord of all living creatures, but Eve spoiled it all.

Martin Luther
Lord, Spoiled, Adam

Beautiful things spoil nothing.

Gustave Flaubert
Beautiful, Beautiful Things, Spoil
Gustave Flaubert (2015). “The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Memoirs and Letters: Original Versions of the Novels and Stories in French, An Interactive Bilingual Edition with Literary Essays on Flaubert by Guy de Maupassant, Virginia Woolf, Henry James, D.H. Lawrence”, p.251, e-artnow

Those who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they clamor for freedom, it is but freedom to establish equality and uniformity.

Eric Hoffer
Equality, Fraternity, Spoiled
Eric Hoffer (1980). “The True Believer”

...don't spoil my learning process!

Diana Wynne Jones
Process, Spoil, Learning Process

Goodness is, so to speak, itself; badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled.

C. S. Lewis
Firsts, Speak, Spoiled
C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I realize I am very privileged. But there's a difference between being spoiled and privileged.

Petra Stunt
Differences, Realizing, Spoiled

Too many proofs spoil the truth.

Peter Greenaway
Proof, Spoil

If by being overstudious, we impair our health and spoil our good humor, let us give it up.

Michel de Montaigne
Giving, Good Humor, Spoil
Michel de Montaigne (1892*). “The Essays of Michel de Montaigne”

I guess I'm sort of spoiled because, most of the things that I get to do, people know that you're a good improviser, so they allow you at least one improv take, and for comedy, that's great.

Matt Walsh
People, Comedy, Spoiled
Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. April 13, 2012.

A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She's too pretty.

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Responsibility, Spoil, Sense Of Responsibility
F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “The Beautiful and Damned: American Literature”, p.32, VM eBooks

I'm actively looking for things to direct again. I had such an amazing experience on this. I really am spoiled.

Elizabeth Banks
Spoiled, Direct, Amazing Experiences
"Elizabeth Banks Talks PITCH PERFECT 2 (and 3), WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER and THE LEGO MOVIE Sequel". Interview with Steve Weintraub, collider.com. May 16, 2015.

Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.

Alan Bradley
Spoiled, Spoiled Brat, Brat
Alan Bradley (2011). “A Red Herring Without Mustard: A Flavia de Luce Novel”, p.83, Delacorte Press

Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me.

William Shakespeare
Company, Spoil
William Shakespeare (1816). “The Works of William Shakspeare...: Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.110

Minds are like oysters. They spoil if you pry them open.

Willa Gibbs
Oysters, Mind, Spoil

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