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
“We who are born poor have to use cunning to get what we want. Scruples are for the privileged.” — Ken Follett 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
Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples. — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones. — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi 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
To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill. — Robert Louis Stevenson 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
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
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
If a woman knows a man to be a libertine, yet will, without scruple, give him her company, he will think half… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
It may be asserted without scruple, that no otherclass of dependants have had their character so entirely distorted from its natural proportions… — Bill Vaughan 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole. — Thomas de Quincey 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
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
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
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
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 were for imbeciles. His clear duty was to make himself happy.” — Jose Conrad 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
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
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
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
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 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
History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unerring, she flows towards her goal. At every bend in her course she… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
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