There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“Some questions are not meant to be asked as long as the answers are right.” — Judith Krantz 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
I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I’ve no patience with modern humanitarian scruples about capital punishment.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“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
“We who are born poor have to use cunning to get what we want. Scruples are for the privileged.” — Ken Follett 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
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
One could plausibly argue that it is for quite sound reasons that the whole capacity for sexual ecstasy is inaccessible to most… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Spirits are not finely touched But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence But like a… — William Shakespeare 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
Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the dangers of… — John Tillotson 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
I never say anything of a man that I have the smallest scruple of saying to him. — George Washington Copy Share Image
Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride. — William Faulkner 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
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
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
In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness. — Ken Follett 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
