#spoils

The victor belongs to the spoils. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#spoils #victor

I think it's bad to talk about one's present work, for it spoils something at the root of the creative act. It discharges the tension. ↗

— Norman Mailer

#act #bad #creative #creative act #i

No praying, it spoils business. ↗

— Thomas Otway

#praying #spoils

I have to say that flying on Air Force One sort of spoils you for coach on a regular airline. ↗

— Ron Reagan

#air force #airline #coach #flying #force

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#common #contrary #erroneous #humble #idea

Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better. ↗

— George Santayana

#better #fun #good #good thing #nothing

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#fit #hath #himself #man #moved

Writing of that caliber spoils you for any other kind of writing for awhile. But that's probably good. ↗

— Mercedes Ruehl

#awhile #caliber #good #kind #other