Scruples Quotes

Scruples Quote of the day

We live in a wondrous time in which the strong is weak because of his moral scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.

There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.

I have the knack of easing scruples.

One person can take papers, photograph them without getting excited, return them, and give them away without any scruples; while someone else has to overcome an enormous obstacle.

The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas.

A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.

I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar.

In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness.

It is much easier to ruin a man of principle than a man of none, for he may be ruined through his scruples. Knavery is supple and can bend; but honesty is firm and upright, and yields not.

Some, merely to contradict what I had said, did not scruple to cast doubt upon things they had seen with their own eyes again and again.

Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples.

Love has this in common with scruples, that it becomes embittered by the reflections and the thoughts that beset us to free ourselves.

Too rigid scruples are concealed pride.

I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.

To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.

To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.

He'll cheat without scruple, who can without fear.

I never say anything of a man that I have the smallest scruple of saying to him.

We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.

Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.

Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.

One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel.

A Mormon is a man that has the bad taste and the religion to do what a good many other people are restrained from doing by conscientious scruples and the police.

He without benefit of scruples - His fun and money soon quadruples.

Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!

There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves.

History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unerring, she flows towards her goal. At every bend in her course she leaves the mud which she carries and the corpses of the drowned.

Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole.

Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride.

I don't like persuaded sitters. I never could paint a cat if the cat had any scruples, religious, superstitious, or otherwise, about sitting.