Scrupulous Quotes

56 quotes by 49 authors

A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2.… — George Orwell
Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions."… — Oscar Wilde
A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the highest virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The… — Thomas Jefferson
I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid… — Mahatma Gandhi
For my part I am very sorry for him. It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet… — George Eliot
Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
Dissimulation, secretiveness, appear a necessity to the melancholic. He has complex, often veiled relations with others. These feelings of superiority, of inadequacy, of baffled feeling,… — Susan Sontag
She was a triumph over ugliness, so often more beguiling than real beauty, if only because it contains paradox. In this case, as opposed to… — Truman Capote
but curiosity is a restless and scrupulous passion, and no one girl can endure, with patience, that hers should be baffled by another. — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may be detailed with… — Francis Parkman
I treat all my characters as if they were real, and I am scrupulous about the details of their lives. — Kathryn Lasky
A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel. — Julien Green
My books are the books that I am, the confused man, the negligent man, the reckless man, the lusty, obscene, boisterous, scrupulous, lying, diabolically truthful… — Henry Miller
What people don't realize is that intimacy has its conventions as well as ordinary social intercourse. There are three cardinal rules -- don't take somebody… — Wystan Hugh Auden
While duty measures the regard it owes With scrupulous precision and nice justice, Love never reasons, but profusely gives, Gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its… — Hannah More

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