Quotes by Scruples We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well. Aeschylus scrupleswellslong He'll cheat without scruple, who can without fear. Benjamin Franklin cheatscruplescheating There are many who have grave scruples about deceiving but think it as nothing to deceive themselves. Eric Hoffer scruplesdeceivingthinking To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life. Fernando Pessoa scruplesactingway 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. Galileo Galilei scrupleseyedoubt I never say anything of a man that I have the smallest scruple of saying to him. George Washington scruplessay-anythingmen 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. James Buchan scruplesnovelistsstories Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones. Jean Francois Paul de Gondi scruplescrimemen 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 scruplesreflectioncommon Too rigid scruples are concealed pride. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe concealedscruplespride I have the knack of easing scruples. Moliere scruplesknack Though I never scruple a lie to serve my Master, it hurts one's conscience to be found out! Richard Brinsley Sheridan scrupleshurtlying To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill. Robert Louis Stevenson scruplesstandingends I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples. Roland Barthes scruplesdegreeslove-you Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole. Thomas de Quincey dearscruplesdear-friend
