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Tag Name "Spoils" (72)

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You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Louisa May Alcott
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Travel spoils you for regular life.
Bill Barich
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Make them do as you want them to, she said. I can’t, mourned Anne. Averil is such an unmanageable heroine. She will do and say things I never meant her to. Then that spoils everything that went before and I have to write it all over again.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
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The haggard aspect of the little old man was wonderfully suited to the place he might have groped among old churches and tombs and deserted houses and gathered all the spoils with his own hands. There was nothing in the whole collection but was in keeping with himself nothing that looked older or more worn than he.
Charles Dickens
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Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.
Mark Twain
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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
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I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience... How would they know?
Marvin Minsky
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We have very primitive emotions,” he said . “It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.
Ernest Hemingway
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Luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you notice nothing. Luxury spoils and infantilizes you and prevents you from knowing the world.
Paul Theroux
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The victor belongs to the spoils.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I believe celebrity spoils people - some worse than others.
Phil Donahue
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Strategic planning is not strategic thinking. Indeed, strategic planning often spoils strategic thinking, causing managers to confuse real vision with the manipulation of numbers.
Henry Mintzberg
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I believe in the old warrior's credo that to the victor go the spoils.
Pope Francis
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The military works like government is financed like government, and sports the same inherent malignancies and perverse incentives of government, down to the racial-spoils system.
Ilana Mercer
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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
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The whole world might know you and acclaim you, but someone in the past, forever unreachable, forever unknowing, spoils it all.
Isaac Asimov
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Take time for deliberation. Haste spoils everything.
Statius
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Nothing spoils idle pleasure like too much awareness
Jacqueline Carey
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You can't find a hermit to teach you herming, because of course that rather spoils the whole thing.
Terry Pratchett
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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
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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
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Nothing spoils lunch any quicker than a rogue meatball rampaging through your spaghetti.
Jim Davis
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I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.
John Cleese
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The division of the spoils between the victors will also provide employment for a powerful office, whose doorsteps the greedy adventurers and jealous concession hunters of twenty or thirty nations will crowd and defile.
John Maynard Keynes
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