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What is a gathering without unseemly drunkenness? -- Jonathan Stroud
At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic. -- Naguib Mahfouz
At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic." -- Naguib Mahfouz
It is unseemly to undress on stage. I won't do that. -- Joan Collins
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Spoilt pleasure is a sad, unseemly thing; you can only bury it. -- Elizabeth Bowen
There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body. -- William Hazlitt
Perish any man who suspects that these men either did or suffered anything unseemly. -- Philip II of Macedon
It is not unseemly for a man to die fighting in defense of his country. -- Homer
Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly. -- Claire McCaskill
If we got rid of everybody in Washington who sold access for donations, then the town would be empty. But it's unseemly. -- David Brooks
Many people are embarrassed to create in public. It feels unseemly to them, like kissing in plain view... Make a spectacle of yourself. -- Eric Maisel
I really love cursing a lot. But as I get older, I realize it's a little unseemly for women of a certain age. -- Tina Fey
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. -- Moliere
[God in the Law given to Moses] having forbidden all unlawful marriage, and all unseemly practice, and the union of women with women and men with men. -- Eusebius
The breezes of the West African night were intimate and shy, licking the hair, sweeping through cotton dresses with unseemly intimacy, then disappearing into the utter blackness. -- Maya Angelou
Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck."Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck. -- George R. R. Martin
Somewhere in the dim recesses of the journalistic soul lies the horrible suspicion: This is really a pretty shallow and maybe unseemly way for a grownup to make a living. -- Andrew Ferguson
Will the United States pull the rug on New Zealand? The answer is no. They might polish the lino a bit harder and hope that I execute a rather unseemly glide across it. -- David Lange
People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it. -- John Irving
I've always tried to have a rule that you shouldn't make fun of innocent people who can't defend themselves. I find that a little unseemly and distasteful. But nothing's really sacred to me. -- Bob Odenkirk
Its avowed purpose is to excite sexual desire, which, I should have thought, is unnecessary in the case of the young, inconvenient in the case of the middle aged, and unseemly in the old. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
Hot soup at table is very vulgar; it either leads to an unseemly mode of taking it, or keeps people waiting too long whilst it cools. Soup should be brought to table only moderately warm. -- Charlie Day
When great individuals move so marvelously along the straight and narrow path, it is unseemly of us to call attention to the fact that one of their shoelaces is untied as they make the journey. -- Neal A. Maxwell
Some ... sexist evil probably predates religion and can be ascribed to our biology, but there is no question that religion promulgates and renders sacrosanct attitudes toward women that would be unseemly in a brachiating ape. -- Sam Harris

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