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Quotes About Spoiling

Later, he lay back propped up against the pillow in the ornate four-poster. She had left the bed, naked, to go downstairs to fetch more cognac and cigarettes. He reflected that only after lovemaking did she spoil him so. She always led him when they made love. She directed and guided, but remained female- like a perfect dancer leading a less well-coordinated partner. Afterward he felt not drained but weakened. A violin overplayed, its strings slack. p13
~ A.J. Quinnell
He held her eyes and said clearly, 'You have a great deal to be responsible for.' 'She gave you birth,' Richard said. 'That was her first mistake. The next was to spoil you. So that everything you want, you must have immediately.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
to shrink the circle of intimate community to the smallest possible circumference. This is the spoiling of faithful friendship.
~ Ralph C. Wood
Don't forget that the most effective form of child abuse is giving a child everything they want.
~ Randy Alcorn
Parents who spoil their children out of 'love' should realize that they are performing acts of child abuse. Although there are no laws against such abuse--no man-made laws anyway--this spiritual mistreatment may result in as much long-term personal and social damage as the worst physical abuse.
~ Randy Alcorn
I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.
~ Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
The best way to ruin a comedy is to throw a lot of money at it.
~ Jay Leno
We don't get enough pampering. If we were once the only child of an adoring mother, we developed a taste for it; if not, we developed a thirst for it.
~ Barbara Holland
It's a fathers job to spoil his daughters shamelessly, it's their husbands job to tame them. Prince Zehava-The Dragon Prince
~ Melanie Rawn
By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go.
~ John Powell
One cannot create happiness with beautiful objects, but one can spoil quite a lot of happiness with bad ones
~ Finn Juhl
Enjoyment always has a spoiling, otherwise it cannot be so.
~ John Donne
Pampering, sometimes called "spoiling," makes your child dependent on you. As you will learn, it is important to meet all of your child's needs for love and basic care, but it can be harmful to give in to all her wants. As you gain information and knowledge, remember to access your heart and inner wisdom to find the balance of interaction that is respectful and healthy for you and your child.
~ Jane Nelsen
Unspoiling is nothing more than the absence of spoiling.
~ Richard Bromfield
we parents give our kids things instead of time, spoiling them as we add fuel to the entitlement flame.
~ Richard Eyre
The last dregs of winter spoiling the taste of everything.
~ Katherine Paterson
But if I tell Daniel…" "He'll worry it's a neurological problem." "Neuro…? Right. Brain. You could just say brain, you know." "Neurological covers more than just the brain. It--" He held up his hand. "If there's one bonus to this disaster, it's not having to go to school for a while. Don't spoil that for me. Please.
~ Kelley Armstrong
You love new boyfriend? I think so. Yes. Then you must spoil him. And he must spoil you.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
It may seem a simple pleasure to spoil our children with a treat of sugar, but that pleasure becomes a sin when the sugar was grown by human beings held in unspeakable misery.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I want to protect you. I want to spoil you. I want to have children with you and spoil them too. I want to grow old with you. And at the end of our lives, you will have no doubt you were loved and adored by me for every second." Yep
~ Kresley Cole
He's watching ya, Dr. Tate," Elspeth whispered, looking over her shoulder. "Aren't ya gonna turn around and wave?" "A man enjoys the chase, Elspeth. It's how God made them. We mustn't spoil all his fun by making it too easy.
~ Deeanne Gist
she imagined what it would be like to live with somebody who had secrets. Instead of a comfortable atmosphere of trust there would be a nagging insecurity, like a corrosive crust, eating away at the fabric of the marriage. Doubts would spread like weeds, making it impossible to relax, spoiling everything.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
I was almost annoyed at her for spoiling my perfectly good sulk.
~ Robin Hobb
passed the station, the stationmaster leaned out. "Didn't think you could do it, mister! Some shootin'!" "Thanks Ã¢â'¬Â¦ And thanks for the warning." He indicated the dead man. "Better get him out of the street. He's a big man and he'll spoil mighty fast." He started Buck toward the Botalla trail. Whatever was going to happen
~ Louis L'Amour