#scruple

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

#admirable #british #features #foreign #novelists

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

#conscience #farming #our #scruple #writing

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. ↗

— Anatole France

#copy #said #scruple #take #thing

I have the knack of easing scruples. ↗

— Moliere

#i #knack #scruples

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

— Fernando Pessoa

#choose #concern #ever #life #my life

And if these be unprincipled agents who scruple at nothing, he will be a bold man who will deny that there are always to be found men at the bar who lend their services most cordially to back and support these agents in their most desperate cases. ↗

— George Combe

#always #back #bar #bold #cases

One person can take papers, photograph them without getting excited, return them, and give them away without any scruples; while someone else has to overcome an enormous obstacle. ↗

— Markus Wolf

#away #else #enormous #excited #getting

A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket. ↗

— John Dennis

#make #man #pick #pocket #pun

Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar. ↗

— Xun Zi

#aware #bravery #death #dog #drink

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

#blessed #eye #happen #keen #mind