A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high… — Boris Yeltsin Copy Share Image
To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill. — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones. — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Copy Share Image
I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Scruples were for imbeciles. His clear duty was to make himself happy.” — Jose Conrad Copy Share Image
A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will thrust a dagger at your breast,… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher… — Anonymous 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 of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with… — James Buchan 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
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
“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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no… — Helmut Jahn Copy Share Image
We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong… — Otto von Bismarck Copy Share Image
Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole. — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out! — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
