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History remembers only the names of the conquerors. There are no pages devoted to the scruples of the losers.
— Manjul Bajaj
We live in a wondrous time, in which the strong is weak because of his scruples and the weak grows strong because of his audacity.
— Otto Von Bismarck
To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
— Alfred Hitchcock
A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.
— Boris Yeltsin
I never say anything of a man that I have the smallest scruple of saying to him.
— George Washington
Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride.
— William Faulkner
Notions and scruples were like spilt needles, making one afraid of treading, or sitting down, or even eating.
— George Eliot
...without any conscientious scruples condoning impurity in themselves, required ideal and angelic purity in their women...
— Leo Tolstoy
Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole.
— Thomas De Quincey
I don't like persuaded sitters. I never could paint a cat if the cat had any scruples, religious, superstitious, or otherwise, about sitting.
— William Morris Hunt
Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.
— Jean Francois Paul De Gondi
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
I have the knack of easing scruples.
— Moliere
We who are born poor have to use cunning to get what we want. Scruples are for the privileged.
— Ken Follett
I've often thought that my scruples about stealing books were the only thing that stood in the way of my being a really great scholar.
— Malcolm Bradbury
The real way of vanquishing scruples is to leave those who have them nothing to lose.
— Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.
— Thomas A Kempis
Too rigid scruples are concealed pride.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
He'll cheat without scruple, who can without fear.
— Benjamin Franklin
History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unnering flows towards her goal. History knows herway. She makes no mistakes.
— Arthur Koestler
