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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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 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
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
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
In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness. — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a… — Malcolm Bradbury Copy Share Image
To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The sadistic narcissist perceives himself as Godlike, ruthless and devoid of scruples, capricious and unfathomable, emotion-less and non-sexual, omniscient, omnipotent and omni-present,… — Sam Vaknin 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
I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels and fools when I found it necessary. ...We avenge intelligence when we… — Giacomo Casanova 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
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
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
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