quotes about Scruples
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Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
-- Edward DahlbergSource : Edward Dahlberg (1964). “Alms for oblivion: essays”
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I never say anything of a man that I have the smallest scruple of saying to him.
-- George Washington -
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 BuchanSource : "Sold, for two truckloads of oranges" by James Buchan, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2006.
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Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.
-- Jean Francois Paul de Gondi -
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Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole.
-- Thomas de Quincey