Scruples Quotations

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

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.

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.

We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.

The revolutionary spirit is mightily convenient in this: that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas

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

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

A disquieting era of genetic manipulation is coming, one that may revolutionize human capacities, and notions of health. If we treat moral scruples impatiently, as inherently retrograde in a scientifically advancing civilization, we will not be in moral trim when, soon, our very humanity depends on our being in trim.

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

I have the knack of easing scruples.

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

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

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

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

Get but that "peace of God which passeth understanding," and the questions of the understanding will cease from puzzling and pedantic scruples be at rest..

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

Too rigid scruples are concealed pride.

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