Quotes About Spoiling Things

#1. Reality runs the risk of spoiling things, don't you think? The fantasy is often better. That's where the soul is fulfilled. Reality struggles to fulfil the soul, that's why we're often so unhappy. But fantasy is the world of the soul ...

James Lusarde

#2. You know how it's going to end, but instead of spoiling things, that somehow increases your fascination. It's like watching a kid run his electric train faster and faster and waiting for it to derail on one of the curves.

Stephen King

#3. My husband is like, "Oh, thank God we didn't have a boy, because there's this train set that I've always wanted, and these Star Wars spaceships ... " They say, "Don't spoil your kids," but it's one thing spoiling your kids, it's another thing spoiling yourself.

Milla Jovovich

#4. Too much polishing and you spoil things. There's a limit to the expressibility of ideas. You have a new thought, an interesting one. Then, as you try to perfect it, it ceases to be new and interesting, and loses the freshness with which it first occurred to you. You're spoiling it.

Leo Tolstoy

#5. I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end. (Jo March)

Louisa May Alcott

#6. Such is life. Sometimes we do not even want to know how much pain we cause others, for fear of spoiling our own petty pleasures. And when the time comes to face the consequences, it is too late to be sorry.

Menelaos Stephanides

#7. I discovered that private things were mostly sour. They sat spoiling in the corners of your heart for so long that by the time you acknowledged them you were dealing with something rancid.

Tarryn Fisher

#8. I was almost annoyed at her for spoiling my perfectly good sulk.

Robin Hobb

#9. All that day she felt as if she were acting in a theatre with better actors than herself, and that her bad performance was spoiling the whole affair.

Leo Tolstoy

#10. I spent the last eleven years making your life hell. I'm ready to spend the rest of mine making it up to you. Spoiling you is just the start. Will you let me?

B.B. Reid

#11. The surest way of spoiling a pleasure [is] to start examining your satisfaction.

C.S. Lewis

#12. Any time I get to spend with you alone, away from school and the pressures of classes and stuff I've gotta do, is you spoiling me. Seriously, Mikey. All I need is you.

Melyssa Winchester

#13. I feel like you have to go looking for spoilers. I'm not on social media, so I will watch a show that was on ten years ago, and clearly I could find out every single piece of information about that show, but I'm not trying to spoil myself. You definitely participate in your own spoiling.

Deborah Ann Woll

#14. Animals don't behave like men,' he said. 'If they have to fight, they fight; and if they have to kill they kill. But they don't sit down and set their wits to work to devise ways of spoiling other creatures' lives and hurting them. They have dignity and animality.

Richard Adams

#15. You're Ma's own blood son, but did she take on that time Tony Fontaine shot you in the leg? No, she just sent for old Doc Fontaine to dress it and asked the doctor what ailed Tony's aim. Said she guessed the licker was spoiling his marksmanship.

Margaret Mitchell

#16. The last dregs of winter spoiling the taste of everything.

Katherine Paterson

#17. The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their heads together, and made complicated biological experiments to find a way of spoiling it. To the eternal glory of British science their labor bore fruit.

George Mikes

#18. Life has ways of getting under your skin, spoiling your fun with too much information. Youth is truly the happiest time where we roll in the bliss of ignorance.

Mark Lawrence

#19. Those ruffians, the Gods, shan't have it all their own way,
her notion being that the Gods, who never lost a chance of hurting, thwarting and spoiling human lives were seriously put out if, all the same, you behaved like a lady.

Virginia Woolf

#20. The sins of the flesh are bad, but they are the least bad of all sins. All the worst pleasures are purely spiritual: the pleasure of putting other people in the wrong, of bossing and patronising and spoiling sport, and back-biting, the pleasures of power, of hatred.

C.S. Lewis

#21. Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow

Thomas Bray

#22. Alaska is much larger than France and Germany - combined. Yet its population is less than one-tenth that of New York City. Keep that in mind the next time you hear some environmentalist hysteria about the danger of "spoiling" Alaska by drilling for oil in an area smaller than Dulles Airport.

Thomas Sowell

#23. God's goodness will not mean a spoiling indulgence; [H]is aim need not be our ease so much as our perfection.

Jocelyn Gibb

#24. Sometimes caring feels like spoiling. Gratitude evens things out.

Cynthia Ruchti

#25. Chefs don't use white pepper just to avoid spoiling the whiteness of pommes puree or bechamel. It has a more peppery aroma, with sharpness and sweetness, too.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#26. In Britain, the press want to kill a show by revealing what's coming up and spoiling the pleasure.

Hugh Bonneville

#27. You people keep spoiling my plans. First Wizard Suliman would not come near the Waste, so that I had to threaten Princess Valeria in order to make the King order him out here. Then, when he came, he grew trees.

Diana Wynne Jones

#28. The whole process of writing a novel is having this great, beautiful idea and then spoiling it.

Diane Johnson

#29. Try approving of yourself just as you are, and spoiling yourself rotten with small kid's pleasures.

Julia Cameron

#30. Boys are slobs ... One reason is that mothers let them get away with it. Mothers are notorious for spoiling male children.

Laura Schlessinger

#31. Ysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun.

Fred Saberhagen

#32. Giving consumers the choice of having it all in one big bite means different viewers are in many different places in the book, making it hard to discuss without spoiling the plot. The intervals between first-run programming provide a space for communion and that tantalizing sense of anticipation.

Michael K. Powell

#33. In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom, especially if it has got to be carried into the market.

Joseph Conrad

#34. To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.

Karl Pilkington

#35. With a dog, people are not disciplined. They think that by spoiling a dog the dog is going to love them more. But the dog misbehaves more because they give affection at the wrong time.

Cesar Millan

#36. The oldest task in human history: to live on a piece of land without spoiling it.

Aldo Leopold

#37. There are other ways I think of myself as spoiling myself ... I ... get a massage once a week. Other people can, I didn't used to, and I can now.

Steve Ballmer

#38. Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war. This war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides, there isn't going to be any war ... If either of you boys says 'war' just once again, I'll go in the house and slam the door.

Vivien Leigh

#39. And there she went, spoiling a moment. As usual.

Harlem Dae

#40. Success is a lot like a bright, white tuxedo. You feel terrific when you get it, but then you're desperately afraid of getting it dirty, of spoiling it in any way.

Conan O'Brien