“Like me, she has scruples. Why is it that only people with money have scruples? Do we have no money BECAUSE we… — Alex Flinn Copy Share Image
“I’ve no patience with modern humanitarian scruples about capital punishment.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no… — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
“Scruples were for imbeciles. His clear duty was to make himself happy.” — Jose Conrad Copy Share Image
The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The terrible predicament of a beautiful girl is that only an experienced womanizer, someone cynical and without scruple, feels up to the… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
“If it comes to that," retorted Frederica, with spirit, "I am continually shocked by the things you don't scruple to say to… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
One could plausibly argue that it is for quite sound reasons that the whole capacity for sexual ecstasy is inaccessible to most… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the dangers of… — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unerring, she flows towards her goal. At every bend in her course she… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Spirits are not finely touched But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence But like a… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
In my judgment it is the duty of Congress, while respecting to the uttermost the conscientious convictions and religious scruples of every… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Like all truly pure souls she [Chantal] quickly resigned herself to past faults, thought only of how to repair whatever harm they… — Georges Bernanos Copy Share Image
To invent without scruple a new principle to every new phenomenon, instead of adapting it to the old; to overload our hypothesis… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The greatest threat to mankind comes from the renunciation of individual scruple in favor of institutional denominators. . . . Real heroism… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Everyone agrees that a secret should be kept intact, but everyone does not agree as to the nature and importance of secrecy.… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a… — John Updike Copy Share Image
For the rich men without scruple drew the estate into their own hands, excluding the rightful heirs from their succession; and all… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
The conduct of a man, who studies philosophy in this careless manner, is more truly sceptical than that of any one, who… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out! — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole. — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones. — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Copy Share Image
Yes, you know enough of my frankness to believe me capable of that. After abusing you so abominably to your face, I… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will thrust a dagger at your breast,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
If a woman knows a man to be a libertine, yet will, without scruple, give him her company, he will think half… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
It may be asserted without scruple, that no otherclass of dependants have had their character so entirely distorted from its natural proportions… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Therefore bivouac we On this great, blond highway, unimpeded by Veiled scruples, worn conundrums. Morning is Impermanent. Grab sex things, swing up… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image