“How strangely distributed are our scruples. When they are evenly spread across our lives, we are judged good people. Mine, unfortunately, tend… — Arthur Phillips Copy Share Image
We live in a world where people don't all have the same scruples, where all blows can be given, and where, in… — Nicolas Sarkozy Copy Share Image
A Mormon is a man that has the bad taste and the religion to do what a good many other people are… — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
Many [hooligans] discover to their shame that they have scruples; they have roots and, greatest disadvantage of all, they have hope. The… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
I remember my emotions the day we watched Nelson Mandela walk out of prison Writing & literature in South Africa during the… — Achmat Dangor Copy Share Image
If there be anything that can render the soul calm, dissipate its scruples and dispel its fears, sweeten its sufferings by the… — S. D Gordon Copy Share Image
I'm a very smart guy. I haven't a feeling or a scruple in the world. All I have the itch for is… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Every age and every nation has certain characteristic vices, which prevail almost universally, which scarcely any person scruples to avow, and which… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I had always been scrupulously careful to avoid the smallest suggestion of infant indoctrination, which I think is ultimately responsible for much… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
He would be guilty of mortal sin, because he exposes himself to the danger of grievously offending God. Hence, before he acts… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
I have a different idea of elegance. I don't dress like a fop, it's true, but my moral grooming is impeccable. I… — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
If we are to include the outer and the inner struggle in a conception more definite than that of conflict in general,… — A. C. Bradley Copy Share Image
Some People are not to be persuaded to taste of any Creatures they have daily seen and been acquainted with, while they… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I assure you very explicitly, that in my opinion the conscientious scruples of all men should be treated with great delicacy and… — George Washington Copy Share Image
However contradictory the coroner's report — whether he pronounces Consumption or Loneliness or Suicide to be the cause of death — isn't… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I know them, yea, And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple; Scambling, out-facing, fashion-mong'ring boys, That lie, and cog, and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“You know what your problem is? You got too many scruples. One or two is okay, but you get too many of… — Janet Evanovich Copy Share Image
Any woman may act the part of a coquette successfully who has the reputation without the scruples of modesty. If a woman… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Millions of Americans cannot tell you who lived at Mount Vernon or who wrote the Declaration of Independence - let alone the… — Arthur L. Herman Copy Share Image
Such pretensions to nicety in experiments of this nature, are truly laughable! They will be telling us some day of the WEIGHT… — Robert Sutton Harrington Copy Share Image
Anatole France frankly advised, "When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it." Yes,… — Gary Saul Morson Copy Share Image
It was at first communicated to you that the Government, by order of the Jemiet had decided to destroy completely all the… — Talaat Pasha Copy Share Image
The tourist debauches the great monuments of antiquity, a comic figure, always inapt in his comments, incongruous in his appearance; ...avarice and… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image