I don't like persuaded sitters. I never could paint a cat if the cat had any scruples, religious, superstitious, or otherwise, about… — William Morris Hunt Copy Share Image
Some, merely to contradict what I had said, did not scruple to cast doubt upon things they had seen with their own… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“We who are born poor have to use cunning to get what we want. Scruples are for the privileged.” — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
Love has this in common with scruples, that it becomes embittered by the reflections and the thoughts that beset us to free… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I never say anything of a man that I have the smallest scruple of saying to him. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Take care to make things turn out well. Some people scruple more over pointing things in the right direction than over successfully… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
One person can take papers, photograph them without getting excited, return them, and give them away without any scruples; while someone else… — Markus Wolf 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
Underlying all your choices, particularly subject matter and the way you represent it, should be your own personal scruples, the standards and… — Richard Schmid Copy Share Image
As for the excellent little wretches who grow up in what they are taught, with never a scruple or a query, ...… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Success achieved by the most contemptible means cannot but destroy the soul. ... It helps to cover up the inner corruption and… — Emma Goldman 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
In my judgment, while it is the duty of Congress to respect to the uttermost the conscientious convictions and religious scruples of… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
The third group [of society] are those irresponsible and reckless ones having little regard for the consequences of their acts, or whose… — Margaret Sanger Copy Share Image
I wonder whether I should gain anything by the attempt to assume a character which is not mine. My wavering manner, born… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Here I beg you to observe in passing that the scruples that prevented ancient writers from using arithmetical terms in geometry, and… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
As a result of continuous work with these highly toxic substances, our minds were so numbed that we no longer had any… — Otto Hahn 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
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
A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“The late 1920s were an age of islands, real and metaphorical. They were an age when Americans by thousands and tens of… — Malcolm Cowley Copy Share Image
Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one's means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor… — Immanuel Kant 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
“I’ve no patience with modern humanitarian scruples about capital punishment.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“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
There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Some questions are not meant to be asked as long as the answers are right.” — Judith Krantz Copy Share Image
Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
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