Quotes with scruples

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• 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
  Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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• Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones.

  Cardinal de Retz
  French churchman and writer of memoirs (1613 - 1679)
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• Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

  Thomas à Kempis
  Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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• 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
  English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• perplexities
• whatsoever
• certain
• decency
• himself
• because

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