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Unbecoming forwardness oftener proceeds from ignorance than impudence. -- Sir Fulke Greville
It is unbecoming for a cardinal to ski badly. -- Pope John Paul II
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. -- Aristotle
Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of. -- Socrates
The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming. -- Oscar Wilde
Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man. -- William Penn
Generally speaking, I think it is unbecoming to act as a national hero, wave hands and so on. -- Vitaly Scherbo
The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not. -- Albert Schweitzer
There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ... 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion! -- William Congreve
Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness. -- Leon Trotsky
That decision to use basically all white models reveals a trait that is unbecoming to modern society. It can no longer be accepted. -- Bethann Hardison
A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable. -- Billy Graham
He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religion is the eldest sister of philosophy: on whatever subjects they may differ, it is unbecoming in either to quarrel, and most so about their inheritance. -- Walter Savage Landor
If you have assumed a character above your strength, you have both acted in this matter in an unbecoming way, and you have neglected that which you might have fulfilled. -- Epictetus
People are rivers, always ready to move from one state of being into another. It is not fair, to treat people as if they are finished beings. Everyone is always becoming and unbecoming. -- Kathleen Winter
I think an appeal to arms and to brute force is unbecoming the age in which we live. Would to God that the time had come when there should be no war, and that religion and peace should reign throughout the world. -- Robert Anderson
Americans must outgrow the unbecoming arrogance that leads us to assert that America somehow owns a monopoly on goodness and truth - a belief that leads some to view the world as but a stage on which to play out the great historical drama: the United States of America versus the Powers of Evil. -- Feisal Abdul Rauf
As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual amusement. It is a game that can be played by day, by night, at home and abroad, and at which you must win in the long run. . . . What an interest it imparts to life!. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
The choreographed standing and clapping of one side of the room - while the other side sits - is unbecoming of a serious institution and the message that it sends is that even on a night when the president is addressing the entire nation, we in Congress cannot sit as one, but must be divided as two. -- Mark Udall
Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will pa tronize in vain,--which taste cannot tolerate,--which ridicule will seize. -- Jane Austen
I shall stick to our vow: never, never under any circumstances, to say anything unbecoming of the other...The trouble, of course, is that most successful men are prone to some form of vanity. There comes a stage in their lives when they consider it permissible to be egotistic and to brag to the public at large about their unique achievements. -- Nelson Mandela
It's unbecoming," she agreed. "A perfect word for my new life. Unbecoming. I who have always been unbecoming am becoming un. -- Gregory Maguire
Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays. -- Jonathan Swift
Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown. -- Martin Luther
However, I think anything is better than high intellectual pressure. That is the most unbecoming thing there is. It makes the noses of the young girls so particularly large. -- Oscar Wilde
My grandmother, whom we call Biel, thinks it's very unbecoming of me not to smile for the paparazzi. So every time I see them, I think, 'Smile for Biel!' -- Jessica Biel
A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with severe superiority on all feminine assumption as unbecoming. -- George Eliot

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