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

    Acting   Way   Scruples  
  • The terrible predicament of a beautiful girl is that only an experienced womanizer, someone cynical and without scruple, feels up to the challenge. More often than not, she will lose her virginity to some filthy lowlife in what proves to be the first step in an irrevocable decline.

    Michel Houellebecq (2001). “The Elementary Particles”, p.61, Vintage
  • A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy. - Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding; it dissipates every doubt and scruple in an instant; accommodates itself to the meanest capacities; silences the loud and clamorous, and cringes over the most obstinate and inflexible. - Philip of Macedon was a man of most invincible reason this way. He refuted by it all the wisdom of Athens; confounded their statesmen; struck their orators dumb; and at length argued them out of all their liberties.

    Wisdom   Philosophy   Men  
  • What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor

  • I often had no scruples about deceiving nitwits and scoundrels and fools when I found it necessary. ...We avenge intelligence when we deceive a fool, and... deceiving a fool is an exploit worthy of an intelligent man. What has infused my very blood with an unconquerable hatred of the whole tribe of fools from the day of my birth is that I become a fool myself when I am in their company.

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

    Pride   Honor   Way  
    William Faulkner (1951). “Absalom, Absalom!”
  • Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples.

    George Eliot (1866). “Felix Holt: The Radical”, p.176
  • The tourist debauches the great monuments of antiquity, a comic figure, always inapt in his comments, incongruous in his appearance; ...avarice and deceit attack him at every step; the shops that he patronizes are full of forgeries... But we need feel no scruple or twinge of uncertainty; 'we' are travelers and cosmopolitans; the tourist is the other fellow.

    Tourists   Deceit   Needs  
  • Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole.

    Thomas De Quincey, James Thomas Fields (1859). “De Quincey's Writings: Historical and critical essays. 1853”, p.278
  • If a woman knows a man to be a libertine, yet will, without scruple, give him her company, he will think half the ceremony between them is over; and will probably only want an opportunity to make her repent of her confidence in him.

    Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.4
  • Some People are not to be persuaded to taste of any Creatures they have daily seen and been acquainted with, while they were alive; others extend their Scruple no further than to their own Poultry, and refuse to eat what they fed and took care of themselves; yet all of them will feed heartily and without Remorse on Beef, Mutton and Fowls when they are bought in the Market.

    People   Beef   Alive  
    "The Fable of the Bees". Book by Bernard Mandeville. Remark P, pp. 188-189, 1732.
  • 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.

    Men   People   Police  
  • I have the knack of easing scruples.

    Knack   Scruples  
  • Spirits are not finely touched But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence But like a thrifty goddess she determines Herself the glory of a creditor,Both thanks and use.

    Issues   Excellence   Use  
    William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1845, BookCaps Study Guides
  • I had always been scrupulously careful to avoid the smallest suggestion of infant indoctrination, which I think is ultimately responsible for much of the evil in the world. Others, less close to her, showed no such scruples, which upset me, as I very much wanted her, as I want all children, to make up her own mind freely when she became old enough to do so. I would encourage her to think, without telling her what to think.

    Richard Dawkins (2004). “A Devil's Chaplain”, p.241, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.

    Edward Dahlberg (1964). “Alms for oblivion: essays”
  • It may be asserted without scruple, that no otherclass of dependants have had their character so entirely distorted from its natural proportions by their relations with their masters.

    Character   Class   May  
  • The third group [of society] are those irresponsible and reckless ones having little regard for the consequences of their acts, or whose religious scruples prevent their exercising control over their numbers. Many of this group are diseased, feeble-minded, and are of the pauper element dependent upon the normal and fit members of society for their support. There is no doubt in the minds of all thinking people that the procreation of this group should be stopped.

    The Morality of Birth Control, delivered 18 November 1921, Park Theatre, NY
  • Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us 't were all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues; nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glory of a creditor - Both thanks and use.

    Light   Issues   Heaven  
    William Shakespeare (1842). “The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere: Merry wives of Windsor. Twelfth night. As you like it. Measure for measure”, p.383
  • 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.

    "Sold, for two truckloads of oranges" by James Buchan, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2006.
  • To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.

    Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Memories, Portraits, Essays and Records (Annotated Edition)”, p.636, Jazzybee Verlag
  • We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.

    Long   Scruples   Wells  
    Aeschylus (1984). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides”, p.127, Penguin
  • Yes, you know enough of my frankness to believe me capable of that. After abusing you so abominably to your face, I could have no scruple in abusing you to all your relations.

    "Pride and Prejudice". Book by Jane Austen. Chapter 16, 1813.
  • I know them, yea, And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple; Scambling, out-facing, fashion-mong'ring boys, That lie, and cog, and flout, deprave, and slander, Go antickly, and show outward hideousness, And speak off half a dozen dangerous words, How they might hurt their enemies, if they durst; And this is all.

    Fashion   Hurt   Lying  
    William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1858). “Much ado about nothing. Love's labour's lost. Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming of the shrew. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night”, p.71
  • I don't like persuaded sitters. I never could paint a cat if the cat had any scruples, religious, superstitious, or otherwise, about sitting.

    Religious   Cat   Sitting  
    William Morris Hunt (1908). “Hunt”
  • Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out!

    Hurt   Lying   Scruples  
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1775). “The Rivals: A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden”, p.32
  • He without benefit of scruples - His fun and money soon quadruples.

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

    Joseph Conrad (2013). “Some Reminicscences”, p.8, Simon and Schuster
  • He who has once deviated from the truth, usually commits perjury with as little scruple as he would tell a lie.

    Truth   Lying   Littles  
    "Oratio Pro Quinto Roscio Comœdo" by Cicero, XX,
  • 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.

    Mean   Blow   Order  
    Le Monde, 2005.
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