“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
My wit is sharper then the finest mustache, and when I walk among men I make truths ring like spurs. — Edmond Rostand 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
“Some questions are not meant to be asked as long as the answers are right.” — Judith Krantz 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
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
The vehemence of my moral indignation surprised me. Was I beginning to have standards and principles, and, oh dear, scruples? What were… — Elaine Dundy 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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness. — Ken Follett 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
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
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
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
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