Top 68 Quotes About Scruples
#1. 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.
Alfred Hitchcock
#2. I've no patience with modern humanitarian scruples about capital punishment.
Agatha Christie
#3. The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive to my mind by the menace of fanaticism and intolerance it contains.
Joseph Conrad
#4. Don't worry. We who are born poor have to use cunning to get what we want. Scruples are for the privileged. She
Ken Follett
#5. I don't have enough scruples to start violating the few I do.
C.T. Phipps
#6. ...without any conscientious scruples condoning impurity in themselves, required ideal and angelic purity in their women...
Leo Tolstoy
#7. There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves.
Eric Hoffer
#8. The architecture profession has lost a lot of its integrity, especially in the USA. The general architect here has no scruples, no ambitions.
Helmut Jahn
#9. You will laugh when you discover that I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels and fools when I found it necessary. As for women, this sort of reciprocal deceit cancels itself out, for when love enters in, both parties are usually dupes
Giacomo Casanova
#10. Shadow found himself starting to like Smith. He told himself that liking this man was not a sensible thing to do. He had met people like Smith before, people without consciences, without scruples, without hearts, and they were uniformly as dangerous as they were likeable.
Neil Gaiman
#11. Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole.
Thomas De Quincey
#12. There were no scruples, no feelings of respect or loyal affection that would stop us from making up our minds by the pure light of reason - and of our own desires.
Simone De Beauvoir
#13. Once again I was astounded by her; even though she was a woman, she seemed to have no scruples about what happened to us. Was is just because we didn't pray to the same God?
Farida Khalaf
#14. Therefore bivouac we On this great, blond highway, unimpeded by Veiled scruples, worn conundrums. Morning is Impermanent. Grab sex things, swing up Over the horizon like a boy On a fishing expedition.
John Ashbery
#15. Whether I resolve to fire, earth, water, air,
Or all the elements by scruples, I know not,
Nor greatly care. - Shoot. Shoot!
Of all deaths, the violent death is best;
For from ourselves it steals ourselves so fast,
The pain, once apprehended, is quite past.
John Webster
#17. Develop a little self-righteousness. A lot of that is an ugly thing, God knows, but a little applied over all your scruples is an absolute necessity! It is to the soul what a good sun-block is to the skin during the heat of summer.
Stephen King
#18. It isn't the evil and indecent who are flung down into the depths, no! Oh, no! The evil and decisive fling down those who are moral, honest and noble but maladroit, hesitant and full of scruples.
Andrzej Sapkowski
#19. 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.
Charles Caleb Colton
#20. Like me, she has scruples. Why is it that only people with money have scruples? Do we have no money BECAUSE we have scruples?
Alex Flinn
#21. History remembers only the names of the conquerors. There are no pages devoted to the scruples of the losers.
Manjul Bajaj
#22. 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.
Markus Wolf
#23. reverent title had previously been forced upon him by the religious scruples of the last newspaper in which a part of the work had appeared, with the natural
Ambrose Bierce
#24. The vehemence of my moral indignation surprised me. Was I beginning to have standards and principles, and, oh dear, scruples? What were they, and what would I do with them, and how much were they going to get in my way?
Elaine Dundy
#25. The rat had no morals, no conscience, no scruples, no consideration, no decency, no milk of rodent kindness, no compunctions, no higher feeling, no friendliness, no anything
E.B. White
#27. Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples.
George Eliot
#28. Piety sometimes gives birth to scruples, and faith to superstition, when they are not directed by wisdom and knowledge.
Lord Acton
#29. 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.
Malcolm Bradbury
#30. It was not that he felt that the world would damage or hurt Frankie in any way, it was much more that there were plenty of things out in the world that Frankie would learn about, and that he would then have no scruples at all.
Jane Smiley
#31. Success achieved by the most contemptible means cannot but destroy the soul ... It helps to cover up the inner corruption and gradually dulls one's scruples, so that those who begin with some high ambition cannot, even if they would, create anything out of themselves.
Emma Goldman
#32. In both cases, weakness and scruples had defeated strength and ruthlessness.
Ken Follett
#33. Love has this in common with scruples, that it becomes embittered by the reflections and the thoughts that beset us to free ourselves.
Jean De La Bruyere
#34. The World's a dangerous place. It doesn't matter where you are, your'e always at risk of being approached by people who have no scruples about attacking, destroying, killing. And we never learn how to defend ourselves. We're all in the hands of those powerful than us.
Paulo Coelho
#36. Notions and scruples were like spilt needles, making one afraid of treading, or sitting down, or even eating.
George Eliot
#37. He without benefit of scruples - His fun and money soon quadruples.
Ogden Nash
#38. People declare as much, without, apparently, looking into the matter very closely. They seem able to dispense with the conscientious observer's scruples, when inflating their bladder of theory.
Jean-Henri Fabre
#39. 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.
Finley Peter Dunne
#40. Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.
Thomas A Kempis
#41. Become a priest. You wouldn't be bad at it with all your scruples, your morality, your knowledge of people and of everything. The fact that you don't believe in any gods shouldn't be a problem - I don't know many priests who do.
Andrzej Sapkowski
#42. In my judgment, while it is the duty of Congress to respect to the uttermost the conscientious convictions and religious scruples of every citizen ... not any ecclesiastical organization can be safely permitted to usurp in the smallest degree the functions and powers of the national government.
James A. Garfield
#43. 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, a plague, a devastation, an inescapable verdict.
Sam Vaknin
#44. A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.
Boris Yeltsin
#45. How strangely distributed are our scruples. When they are evenly spread across our lives, we are judged good people. Mine, unfortunately, tend to bunch up.
Arthur Phillips
#46. Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.
Xun Zi
#47. We live in a world where people don't all have the same scruples, where all blows can be given, and where, in order to down somebody, all means can be used. Nothing will lead me astray from the path that I have chosen.
Nicolas Sarkozy
#48. Many man's scruples lie almost wholly about obedience to authority and compliance with indifferent customs, but very seldom about the dangers of disobedience and unpeaceableness and rending in pieces the Church of Christ by needless separations and endless divisions.
John Tillotson
#49. Here we come upon a terrible facet of ethically asymmetric warfare: when your enemy has no scruples, your own scruples become another weapon in his hand.
Sam Harris
#50. I don't like persuaded sitters. I never could paint a cat if the cat had any scruples, religious, superstitious, or otherwise, about sitting.
William Morris Hunt
#51. History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes.
Arthur Koestler
#52. I have the knack of easing scruples.
Moliere
#53. For God's sake, Larry, grow up. Develop a little self-righteousness. A lot of that is an ugly thing, God knows, but a little spread over all your scruples is an absolute necessity!
Stephen King
#54. The onslaught of scruples is a problem well attested in the spiritual life, especially among the young, where religious observances must be done perfectly to achieve a certain result.
Philip Zaleski
#55. We who are born poor have to use cunning to get what we want. Scruples are for the privileged.
Ken Follett
#56. There were so many who did wish to speak. For the movement was without scruples; she rolled towards her goal unconcernedly and deposed the corpses of the drowned in the windings of her course.
Anonymous
#57. That he had no scruples; for, said he, when I fail in my duty, I readily acknowledge it, saying, I am used to do so: I shall never do otherwise, if I am left to myself. I fail not, then I give GOD thanks, acknowledging the strength comes from Him.
Brother Lawrence
#58. I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
Roland Barthes
#59. We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
Otto Von Bismarck
#60. We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.
Aeschylus
#61. I say that the true artist seer, the heavenly fool who can and does produce beauty, is mainly dazzled to death by his own scruples, the blinding shapes and colors of his own human conscience.
J.D. Salinger
#62. Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride.
William Faulkner
#63. Underlying all your choices, particularly subject matter and the way you represent it, should be your own personal scruples, the standards and rules that you voluntarily set for yourself, and which you may change or abandon whenever you choose - without explanation to anyone.
Richard Schmid
#65. Some questions are not meant to be asked as long as the answers are right.
Judith Krantz
#67. I never say anything of a man that I have the smallest scruple of saying to him.
George Washington
#68. He had put so much space behind him that he had finally reached that place at which the past was indeed another country, the future was unimportant, only today existed, and even today merely unfolded, minute by minute.
Judith Krantz
