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

Reading good books spoils you for enjoying bad books. — Annie Barrows

Nothing spoils a confession like repentance. — Anatole France

Perfectionism kills art. I find that if I criticise myself, it spoils the fun. You can get paralysed by analysis - it takes all the playfulness away. — Geri Halliwell

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

It's a universal truth that nothing spoils a postlunch game of croquet like suspecting the other players of murder. — Shannon Hale

A herd of prairie-wolves will enter a field of melons and quarrel about the division of the spoils as fiercely and noisily as so many politicians. — William Cullen Bryant

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

While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster. — Abigail Van Buren

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

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

To the disrupters go the spoils. — Heather Simmons

Nothing spoils human nature more than false zeal. The good nature of a heathen is more God-like than the furious zeal of a Christian. — Benjamin Whichcote

If kept dry, a chocolate with a high cacao content, I've discovered, rarely spoils. — Bill Buford

The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason. — Immanuel Kant

The small meannesses bred by the law of competition corrode men's character as rust spoils steel. — Frances E. Willard

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

Nothing spoils a good party like a genius. — Elsa Maxwell

Sweet spoils won on a silken battlefield. Every inch belonged to him, and he would take it as he wished. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Indecency in anything spoils it. And modesty in anything adorns it. — Ibn Majah

Where no effort is necessary, the least effort spoils things. — Marty Rubin

Brandy and water spoils two good things. — Charles Lamb

The worst of failure of this kind is that it spoils the market for more competent performers. — James Agate

economy spoils pleasure — Giacomo Casanova

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

To the victors belong the spoils. — Andrew Jackson

To overcome in battle, and subdue Nations, and bring home spoils with infinite Man-slaughter, shall be held the highest pitch Of human glory. — John Milton

I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation. — David Gilmour

Caesar tarried in Egypt, Taking in all the spoils, The Lighthouse, the Library, Queen Cleopatra and Her many-perfumed oils. — Margaret George

Un auteur ga te tout quand il veut trop bien faire. An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good. — Jean De La Fontaine

I hate to see prudence clinging to the green suckers of youth; 'tis like ivy round a sapling, and spoils the growth of the tree. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Anger spoils relationships where there should be great reciprocity. — Robert A.F. Thurman

Illness isn't the only thing that spoils the appetite. — Ivan Turgenev

Throw a theory into the fire; it only spoils life. — Mikhail Bakunin

The greater the battle - the greater the spoils. — T.D. Jakes

Knowledge often spoils devotion. — Kate Horsley

I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience ... How would they know? — Marvin Minsky

We have very primative emotions. It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though. — Ernest Hemingway,

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

Take time for deliberation. Haste spoils everything. — Statius

He who acts, spoils; he who grasps, lets slip. — Lao-Tzu

Or is it that slow paced evil creeps in when it espies and envies happiness, and then takes a deliberate foul delight in spoiling it? — Leslie W.P. Garland

Most unfortunately, in the lives of puppets there is always a 'but' that spoils everything. — Carlo Collodi

Ah! thus man spoils Heaven's glorious works with blood! — Charlotte Turner Smith

When you walk with trash, you end up smelling the same. — Anthony Liccione

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

The whole world might know you and acclaim you, but someone in the past, forever unreachable, forever unknowing, spoils it all. — Isaac Asimov

Travel spoils you for regular life. — Bill Barich

We shouldn't always have what we want: it spoils the best of us, doesn't it? — Anne Bronte

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

If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity. — Dante Alighieri

It takes two to paint. One to paint, the other to stand by with an axe to kill him before he spoils it. — William Merritt Chase

It is only the sudden and unpredictable appearance of comets that spoils the immutable celestial sphere. — John Pipkin

The rotten apple spoils his companions. — Benjamin Franklin

Doubt is an awful snake of an emotion. Once it has you in it's grip, it won't let go. It spoils everything. — Peter Watson

Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman — Oscar Wilde

Nothing spoils idle pleasure like too much awareness — Jacqueline Carey

You can't find a hermit to teach you herming, because of course that rather spoils the whole thing. — Terry Pratchett

Admiration spoils all from infancy. — Blaise Pascal

The victor belongs to the spoils — F Scott Fitzgerald

Let's be honest: nothing spoils 'The Walking Dead' quite like watching 'The Walking Dead.' — David Harsanyi

The last dog I had was an Irish wolfhound - now that is a dog. Rather spoils a person for a lesser canine, that is, anything under a hundredweight. — Laurie R. King

I believe in the old warrior's credo that "to the victor go the spoils." — Pope Francis

The noblest deeds are well enough set forth in simple language; emphasis spoils them. — Jean De La Bruyere

Drunkenness, spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans the man. — William Penn

It is a flaw In happiness to see beyond our bourn, - It forces us in summer skies to mourn, It spoils the singing of the nightingale. — John Keats

If nothing on the inside spoils, nothing on the outside will either. This is the hidden secret of this world. — Dada Bhagwan

It is because God loves the world he has made, and especially his human creatures, that he hates everything that spoils, wrecks, or defaces it. — N. T. Wright

Some kind of internecine conflict, over the spoils. — Lee Child

Rich with the spoils of nature. — Thomas Browne

The victors always think they are righteous. But then, they always seem to start a mighty unrighteous squabbling over the spoils. — Stephen L. Carter

You lead with direction, and you try to lead by example. I try to be there when things are not good and obviously share the spoils of success. — Roger Penske

One bad habit often spoils a dozen good ones. — Napoleon Hill

Worry is worthless. It can't change the past or control the future. It only spoils the moment. — Darrin Patrick

The youth are the spoils of war. — Laini Taylor

Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Conceit spoils the finest genius. — Louisa May Alcott

There is never a restless night for the dark soul. They sleep well within a destiny sealed and accepted in trade for the spoils of the earth — Carl Henegan

He remarked that thinking often spoils everything and that evil usually begins with our thoughts. — Brother Lawrence

Thus says the fool: Association with men spoils the character, especially when one has none. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I hate war, for it spoils conversation. — Bernard Le Bovier De Fontenelle

You're a demon. I thought your motto was 'spoils to the victor.' (Aimee)
No, our motto is 'everything tastes better with hot sauce.' (Xedrix) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly. — Jean Cocteau

Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it? — Thomas Harris

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

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Sometimes I think we know too much about our idols and that spoils the dream. — Elizabeth Taylor

To the victor belong the spoils of the enemy. — William L. Marcy

Nothing spoils lunch any quicker than a rogue meatball rampaging through your spaghetti. — Jim Davis

Bad teaching wastes a great deal of effort, and spoils many lives which might have been full of energy and happiness. — Gilbert Highet

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

Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness. — Mark Twain

You cannot imagine how it spoils one to have been a child prodigy. — Franz Liszt

Power is what spoils people. Yes, it seems to me that the seeking after power is the great danger and the great corruptor of mankind. — Baldur Von Schirach

Rich with the spoils of time. — Thomas Gray

Uncharitableness spoils the best Gains, and two to one but it entails a Curse upon the Possessors. — Various

I would never judge someone's intrigue with the spoils of fame, because I went through that. — Alanis Morissette

But if faith is only for the future, there will be no faith, for like manna, faith saved spoils. — Andrew Root

Stigma is a process by which the reaction of others spoils normal identity. — Erving Goffman

The lives lost are of less consequence than the spoils gained. — Hugh Howey