Quotes About Spoil

Yet if our chief for plunder only fight, The spoils of Ilion shall thy loss requite, Whene'er, by Jove's decree, our conquering powers Shall humble to the dust her lofty towers.

There I sacked the city, killed the men, but as for the wives and plunder, that rich haul we dragged away from the place —

don't be a spoilsport. Gossip is sexy. Gossip is good. Not everybody does it, but everybody should!

It's always possible for human beings to spoil their own peace of mind

It is in the nature of things to be drawn to the very experiences that will spoil our innocence, transform our lives, and give us necessary complexity and depth.

Roman Occupation and Diaspora (64 BC-AD 1948) Rome established control of Israel in 64 BC. "33And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days." Daniel 11:33

On our hunger to control and know everything humans break and spoil

I am a commercial hero, and I will never leave that genre. And having an image of a mass hero, I will spoil the whole script in the wake of being too experimental.

It wouldn't be fair to cast aspersions on an entire cultural movement based on the actions of a few. To quote my grandfather, 'One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch.'

I don't always go out for Mexican, but when I do I spoil my appetite with free tortilla chips.

A rare spoil for a man Is the winning of a good wife; very Plentiful are the worthless women.

Conscience is like a pet: If you spoil it by too much attention it'll start yipping at the most inopportune times.

Translations increase the faults of a work and spoil its beauties.

I'm afraid that whatever I touch is spoilt by the contact." "I'm not scared of being spoiled," Val said.

Men bow before the power of genius; they hate it, and try to slander it, because genius does not divide the spoil; but if genius persists, they bow before it.

some people coddle their own afflictions the way others spoil small pedigreed dogs with cans of pate.

Anxiety and apprehension should have been the furthest things from my mind. But because I am a pessimist and must always keep sticking my tongue in pessimism the way you do a sore tooth I couldn't help thinking that it was all too easy. Things just aren't this easy for people...Something or somebody is bound to come and spoil it...so you can just get yourself ready for it.

We had six years of happiness. And it was you who had to spoil it. With you, when something is right, it's never enough. You don't value happiness. You don't even realize. Because you always want more. (She

Nobody who is not prepared to spoil cats will get from them the reward they are able to give to those who do spoil them.

Meals were the daily bane of my existence; not so much the constant work of picking, cleaning, chopping, cooking—though those activities were fairly baneful in themselves—but primarily the never-ending chore of remembering what we had on hand, and balancing the effort required to make it edible against the knowledge of what might spoil if we didn't eat it right away.

A philosopher may deplore the eternal discords of the human race, but he will confess, that the desire of spoil is a more rational provocation than the vanity of conquest.

Today is a gift use it to make it your best day ever. Spoil yourself. Love yourself. Find your happiness within yourself.

Love is a boy, by poets styled, Then spare the rod, and spoil the child

where there is war there's spoil. From this it was not far to roving on adventure. Young men could set themselves up in life; kings could grow rich without hard taxes, which pleased their people;