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Spoils Quotes

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
Baltasar Gracian

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
Louisa May Alcott

Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better.
George Santayana

I believe celebrity spoils people - some worse than others.
Phil Donahue

I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline.
Ron Reagan

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension.
Norman Mailer

If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?
Tom Barrett

No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils.
Elihu Root

No praying, it spoils business.
Thomas Otway

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.
Russell Baker

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
W. Somerset Maugham

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils.
William Shakespeare

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
Will Rogers

The victor belongs to the spoils.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

To the victors belong the spoils.
Andrew Jackson

Wit - the salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.
Ambrose Bierce

Writing of that caliber spoils you for any other kind of writing for awhile. But that's probably good.
Mercedes Ruehl

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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