Love has this in common with scruples, that it becomes embittered by the reflections and the thoughts that beset us to free ourselves.
Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
We spoil ourselves with scruples long as things go well.
I never say anything of a man that I have the smallest scruple of saying to him.
Often one's dear friend talks something which one scruples to call rigmarole.
There's nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.
I love you is unsubtle. It removes explanations, facilities, degrees, scruples.
To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
To be overwise is to ossify; and the scruple-monger ends by standing stockstill.