Scruples Quotes · Page 2

The third group [of society] are those irresponsible and reckless ones having little regard for the consequences of their acts, or whose…

— Margaret Sanger

Any woman may act the part of a coquette successfully who has the reputation without the scruples of modesty. If a woman…

— William Hazlitt

Take care to make things turn out well. Some people scruple more over pointing things in the right direction than over successfully…

— Baltasar Gracian

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

I assure you very explicitly, that in my opinion the conscientious scruples of all men should be treated with great delicacy and…

— George Washington

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

I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.

— Anonymous

It was at first communicated to you that the Government, by order of the Jemiet had decided to destroy completely all the…

— Talaat Pasha

Spirits are not finely touched But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence But like a…

— William Shakespeare

Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth…

— William Shakespeare

Underlying all your choices, particularly subject matter and the way you represent it, should be your own personal scruples, the standards and…

— Richard Schmid

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

Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples.

— George Eliot

Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant.

— Joseph Addison

A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Many [hooligans] discover to their shame that they have scruples; they have roots and, greatest disadvantage of all, they have hope. The…

— Quentin Crisp

I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a…

— John Updike

One person can take papers, photograph them without getting excited, return them, and give them away without any scruples; while someone else…

— Markus Wolf

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

I remember my emotions the day we watched Nelson Mandela walk out of prison Writing & literature in South Africa during the…

— Achmat Dangor

One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with…

— James Buchan

There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves.

— Eric Hoffer

I had always been scrupulously careful to avoid the smallest suggestion of infant indoctrination, which I think is ultimately responsible for much…

— Richard Dawkins

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

A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high…

— Boris Yeltsin