„I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end. (Jo March)“

„Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want.“

—  Louisa May Alcott, kniha Little Women

Zdroj: Little Women

„This was the heyday of the movies; it was hard to keep a level head and one's sense of values. MGM made over-worked, spoiled idols out of Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, and Elizabeth Taylor; it wasn't the kids' fault, nor the studio's, it was the System. I too was on the spoiling list for a while, but I didn't go along with it.“

—  Lucille Ball American actress and businesswoman 1911 - 1989

Page 137
Love, Lucy (1996)

„I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them.“

—  Jane Austen, kniha Northanger Abbey

Zdroj: Northanger Abbey

„Just as iron rusts unless it is used, and water putrifies or, in cold, turns to ice, so our intellect spoils unless it is kept in use.“

—  Leonardo Da Vinci Italian Renaissance polymath 1452 - 1519

XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
Varianta: Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

„The reason men are so awful is because some woman has spoiled them.“

—  Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

Zdroj: Lonesome Dove

„When neither our fellows nor our gods spoil our plans, we spoil them ourselves.“

—  Gene Wolfe American science fiction and fantasy writer 1931 - 2019

Volume 4, Ch. 15
Fiction, The Book of the Long Sun (1993–1996)

„I just can't understand why they carried on with the name. It did them no favours, and however it can be defended, it spoils the memory. It's not so much that it's unforgivable, but it is a pity that we don't see each other and never talk to each other.“

—  Ian McCulloch singer, musician 1959

Referring to Echo & the Bunnymen continuing after he left the band.
Q magazine (1992)

„(Quoting his three year old son on a James Blunt song) "Daddy, turn it off, it's spoiling my brain"“

—  Bill Bailey English comedian, musician, actor, TV and radio presenter and author 1965

Tinselworm (2008)

„All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.“

—  Oscar Wilde Irish writer and poet 1854 - 1900

"The Portrait of Mr. W. H.," Blackwood's Magazine, July 1889 http://books.google.com/books?id=QfczAQAAMAAJ&q=%22All+charming+people+I+fancy+are+spoiled+It+is+the+secret+of+their+attraction%22&pg=PA4#v=onepage

„I decide that the East has definitely spoiled me for women.“

—  Anthony Burgess English writer 1917 - 1993

Fiction, The Enemy in the Blanket (1958)

„Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.“

—  François Lelord, kniha Hector and the Search for Happiness

Zdroj: Hector and the Search for Happiness

„Making mental sermons, can spoil delicious moments.“

—  Remy de Gourmont French writer 1858 - 1915

A Virgin Heart (trans. 1922)

„… don't spoil my learning process!“

—  Diana Wynne Jones, House of Many Ways

Zdroj: House of Many Ways

„He spared the child and spoiled the rod
I have not sold myself to God!“

—  Patti Smith American singer-songwriter, poet and visual artist 1946

Babelogue, from Easter (1978)
Lyrics

„Anyone got a van?[Silence]That's right, you never see them any more, do you, vans. Trying to spoil my DVD?“

—  Harry Hill English comedian, doctor 1964

"Hooves" Live

„They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.“

—  Oscar Wilde Irish writer and poet 1854 - 1900

„We must spoil our women, boy. A happy woman makes a happy home. An unhappy one makes us drink.“

—  Sherrilyn Kenyon Novelist 1965

Zdroj: Styxx

„Men will never rest till they've spoiled the earth and destroyed the animals.“

—  Richard Adams, kniha Watership Down

Zdroj: Watership Down

„You mad at the last album, I apologize for it
Yo, I can't call it, man muh'fuckin' Wyclef spoiled it“

—  Danny! American rapper 1983

"Intro"
Albums, F.O.O.D. (2005)