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Oh, wasteful woman, she who may On her sweet self set her own price, Knowing man cannot choose but pay, How has she cheapened paradise: How given for naught her priceless gift, How spoiled the bread and spilled the wine, Which, spent with due, respective thrift, Had made brutes men, and men divine.
— 1854 TheAngel in the House, bk.1,The Betrothal, canto 3, prelude 3,'Unthrift'.
Thereissomething kind of absurd about peoplewho live in such a comfortable, cushioned, spoiled society tattooing themselves and piercing themselves to make them appear tribal.
— 2002 In Interview Magazine, May.
I think she was cut out for a Gentlewoman, but she was spoiled in the making. She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork; and, for the fashion, I believe they were made in the days of Queen Bess.
jonathan swift— 1738 Polite Conversation, dialogue1.
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
— Sometimes attributed to Mark Twain, but most believe it did not come into being until after his death..
Fhairshon had a son,Who married Noah's daughter,And nearly spoiled ta Flood,By drinking up the water.Which he would have done,I at least pelieve it,Had the mixture beenOnly half Glenlivet.
— Poem, The Massacre of the Macpherson
We should not, certainly, punish other people in general because of an apparent lack of gratitude on the part of some. It could be that people are so busy they seem ungrateful — or they actually are thankless! But this is OK — I'd rather be nice to someone spoiled than mean to someone who really could use a hand.
ysabella brave— "Doing Good — for the right reasons!" (13 March 2008)
It is, of course, the great forest of Epping that givs an air of serenity and tranquillity to a piece of England the Industrial Age might so easily have spoiled.
arthur mee— Page 1 (The King's England: Essex)
He spared the child and spoiled the rodI have not sold myself to God!
Patti Smith— Babelogue, from Easter (1978)
"In a situation like that I know I would have been scared stiff. But I am sure that when Gilles felt his Ferrari take off, his last thought was anger, plain and simple, because he knew that he had spoiled that one perfect lap."
gilles villeneuve— Eddie Cheever Formula One driver and Indianapolis 500 winner - Donaldson, pg. 318
Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan — spoiled.
Israel Zangwill— Children of the Ghetto (1892), bk. 2, ch. 6.
The notion that I might have been able to court friends, win attention, conjure it, would have spoiled it for me. Unbidden love was what I wanted.
Edmund White— Chapter Five (p. 110)
You can make more money on unemployment than you can going down and getting one of those jobs that is an honest job, but it doesn't pay as much. And so that's what's happened to us is that we have put in so much entitlement into our government that we really have spoiled our citizenry and said you don't want the jobs that are available.
sharron angle— interview with KRNO, 2010-07-14YouTube video, YouTube, 18 June 2010, retrieved on 2010-10-23 on unemployment benefits
The telephone rang like a spoiled brat.
ray bradbury— The Murderer (1953)
Rats! They fought the dogs and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats, And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats.
Robert Browning— The Pied Piper of Hamelin, line 10 (1842).
When our individual interests and prospects do not seem worth living for, we are in desperate need for something apart from us to live for. All forms of dedication, devotion, loyalty and self-surrender are in essence a desperate clinging to something which might give worth and meaning to our futile, spoiled lives.
Eric Hoffer— Section 13 (The True Believer (1951))
She said to Constance, parodying a line of poetry that attracted her, "In the United States, there one feels free." But she spoiled it by continuing, "Except from the Americans but every pearl has its oyster."
Randall Jarrell— Ch. 4, p. 181
Badness is only spoiled goodness.
C. S. Lewis— Mere Christianity, p. 36, unidentified edition
What if he has borrowed the matter and spoiled the form, as it oft falls out?
Michel de Montaigne— Book III, ch. 8. Of the Art of Conversation
I phoned Prince out of the blue, hummed a melody, and he listened," ... "I hung up, and he came over within the hour. He listened again, and I said, 'Do you hate it?' He said, 'No,' and walked over to the synthesizers that were set up, was absolutely brilliant for about twenty five minutes, and then left. He was so uncanny, so wild, he spoiled me for every band I've ever had because nobody can exactly re-create not even with two piano players-what Prince did all by his little self.
stevie nicks— (on "Stand Back") Musician, issue 123-128 (1989), p. 84.
The rationalism of the creative minds was tempered by abundant fantasies, and the supreme beauty of the monuments was probably spoiled by the circumambient vanities and ugliness; in a few cases the Greeks came as close to perfection as it was possible to do, yet they were human and imperfect.
george sarton— Preface (A History of Science Vol.1 Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece (1952))
The summer day was spoiled with fitful storm; At night the wind died and the soft rain dropped; With lulling murmur, and the air was warm, And all the tumult and the trouble stopped.
celia thaxter— The Nestling Swallows, in Drift-Weed (1878), p. 20.
In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.
— Bible, in The Holy Bible, in the Authorized Version: With Notes and ..., Volume 6, Part 2, p.73
And they spoiled the Egyptians.
— Exodus, XII. 36. (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations)
I am a gentleman, though spoiled i' the breeding. The Buzzards are all gentlemen. We came in with the Conqueror.
— Richard Brome, The English Moor, Act II. 4.
Digestion, much like Love and Wine, no trifling will brook: His cook once spoiled the dinner of an Emperor of men; The dinner spoiled the temper of his Majesty, and then The Emperor made history and no one blamed the cook.
F. J. MacBeath— Cause and Effect. In Smart Set, Volume I. No. 4.
Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child .
— Robert A. Heinlein (1974). Time Enough for Love (Twelfth Printing ed.). New York: Berkeley Medallion. p. 244. ISBN 9780425024935.
Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
robert a. heinlein— Time Enough for Love (1974). New York: Berkeley Medallion. p. 244.
All forms of dedication , devotion, loyalty and self-surrender are in essence a desperate clinging to something which might give worth and meaning to our futile, spoiled lives .
— Eric Hoffer, in The Discovery of First Principles, p.277
Die sch o« nsten Pl a« ne sind schon zuschanden geworden durch die Kleinlichkeit von denen, wo sie ausfu« hren sollten, denn die Kaiser selber k o« nnen ja nix machen. The finest plans have always been spoiled by the pettiness of those who should carry them out. Even emperors cannot do it all by themselves.
— 1939 Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder ('Mother Courage and her Children'), sc.6.
