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Scruples Quotes

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

George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.89, Rowman & Littlefield

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

Benjamin Franklin (2006). “Wisdom and Wit from Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.16, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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

Too rigid scruples are concealed pride.

"Iphigenia in Tauris". Play by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, IV. 4. 120, April 6, 1779.

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

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

Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1775). “The Rivals: A Comedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden”, p.32

We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.

Aeschylus (1984). “The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides”, p.127, Penguin