Quotes About Spoilsport

I hate the stuff. Just a glass of sweet sherry at Christmas, so as not to be accused of being a spoilsport. But it changes people. And not for the better." I agree. I have no interest in alcohol, or in people getting "merry," or "whistled," or "half seas over" and all the other words and phrases which make them feel better about themselves.

Keynes eliminated economic theory's ancient role as spoilsport for inflationist and statist schemes, leading a new generation of economists on to academic power and to political pelf and privilege.

Stand-up came naturally to me because people in Ireland talk. But that's not talking on panel shows; it is structured fun. It reminds me of some tragic aunt clapping her hands and bouncing into a room and announcing we should all play games... and if we don't we are all a rotten spoilsport.

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

Except in a few well-publicized instances (enough to lend credence to the iconography painted on the walls of the media), the rigorous practice of rugged individualism usually leads to poverty, ostracism and disgrace. The rugged individualist is too often mistaken for the misfit, the maverick, the spoilsport, the sore thumb.

Beldin sighed. Since you're going to be such a spoilsport for this, Pol, I found a group of sheephenders below the snow line. Shepherds, uncle, she corrected. It means the same thing. If you really look at it, it's even the same word, Shepherd sounds nicer. Nicer. He snorted. Sheep are stupid, they smell bad, and they taste worse. Anybody who spends his life tending them is either defective or degenerate.