Best Unbecoming Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“She had caught him like a visceral disease which grew and spread inside him. Her presence was the remedy, her absence filled the air. He had grown used to her like a queasy, a sick man to his medicine; just like it happens then, the more of her was the less of her.”

Love Quotes Disease Obsession Unrequited Love Addict Her Unbecoming Tale Of Love And Darkness

Author:Teufel Damon

“But it does make you feel smaller, which is a relief in some ways. When you screw up, it seems less terrible. all these people, everybody screwing up.”

Unbecoming Schadenfreude Rebecca Scherm

Author:Rebecca Scherm

“Hasn't anyone told you anger is unbecoming?”

Anger Unbecoming

Book:Unblemished

Source: Unblemished

“A perfect word for my new life. Unbecoming. I who have always been unbecoming am becoming un.”

New Life Unbecoming Becoming Who We Are Our True Self

Book:Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

Source: Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West

“To become and unbecome lies in your hand, your willpower defines how far.”

Life Inspirational Motivational Inspirational Quotes Life Quotes Motivational Quotes For Women Unbecoming

Author:Mofoluke Ayoola

“When an evil deed is recurrent, the initial repugnance diminishes to tolerance; the tolerance transforms to acceptance. The acceptance leads to expectance. For instance, the term necessary evil confers on it the status of benevolence, hence indispensable. This is how, the unbecoming becomes the becoming and the becoming becomes the unbecoming.”

Evil Quotes Unbecoming Tolerance Vs Acceptance

Book:Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

Source: Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“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!.”

Thinking Years Long Home Running Night Games Winning Interest Saving Occupation Perpetual Long Runs Amusement Amusing Impart Unbecoming

Book:Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)

“It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.”

Men Inspirational Age Young Humorous Philosophical Witty Young Man Maxims Nicomachean Ethics Unbecoming

Author:Aristotle

“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.”

Thinking Young Girl Intellectual Pressure Noses Unbecoming

Book:Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis

Source: Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis

“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.”

Looks Pride Proud Assumption Carrie Feminine Submit Superiority Severe Submission Reinforcement Unbecoming Proud Woman

Book:Complete Works Of George Eliot

Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot

“Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.”

Men Play Might Virtue Drama Strikes Wit Passages Offensive Unbecoming

Author:Jonathan Swift

“Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.”

Men Behavior Weakness Levity Unbecoming

Author:William Penn

“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.”

May Philosophy Religion Subjects Inheritance Quarrels Eldest Unbecoming

Book:The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].

Source: The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].

“Unbecoming forwardness oftener proceeds from ignorance than impudence.”

Ignorance Manners Impudence Unbecoming

Author:Sir Fulke Greville

“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.”

World Reason Grief Figures Sorrow Taste Fairs Size Vain Proportion Tolerate Affliction Ridicule Limbs Not Fair Conjunctions Unbecoming

Book:Persuasion - Jane Austen

Source: Persuasion - Jane Austen

“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.”

Two Night Nations Sides President Rooms Serious Messages Standing Institutions Congress Divided Law Enforcement Clapping Unbecoming

Author:Mark Udall

“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.”

Men Wells Emotion Sorry Glad Good Man Unbecoming

Book:The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source: The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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.”

Thinking World Should War Age Force Arms Appeals Civil War Reign Brutes No War Brute Force Unbecoming

Author:Robert Anderson

“There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ... 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion!”

Men Passion Quality Laughing Expression Laughter Vulgar Unbecoming

Author:William Congreve

“Now in regard to trades and other means of livelihood, which ones are to be considered becoming to a gentleman and which ones are vulgar, we have been taught, in general, as follows. First, those means of livelihood are rejected as undesirable which incur people's ill-will, as those of tax-gatherers and usurers. Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)

“That decision to use basically all white models, reveals a trait that is unbecoming to modern society. It can no longer be accepted...”

Use White Decision Modern Models Accepted Traits Modern Society Unbecoming

Author:Bethann Hardison

“Dishonesty of any kind will create a blemish.”

Kind Dishonesty Unbecoming

Author:Gordon B. Hinckley

“Whining is just unbecoming.”

Whining Unbecoming

Author:Maya Angelou

“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.”

“The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.”

Young Secret Emotion Youth Unbecoming

Book:The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings

“Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or equity, are under such a fatal necessity of favoring fraud, perjury and oppression, that I have known several of them to refuse a large bribe from the side where justice lay, rather than injure the faculty by doing any thing unbecoming their nature in office.”

Sides Justice Known Judging Office Lays Refuse Lawyer Oppression Lazy Faculty Fraud Equity Biased Bribe Perjury Unbecoming

Author:Jonathan Swift

“It is equally vain,” she thought, “for you to think you can protect me, or for me to think I can worship you. The light of truth beats upon us without shadow, and the light of truth is damnably unbecoming to us both.”

Thinking I Can Light Truth Is Protect Worship Beats Shadow Vain Unbecoming Worship You

Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“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.”

Men Form Courses Successful Trouble Stage Circumstances Achievement Unique Sticks Vanity Say Anything Vow Brag Successful Man Unbecoming

Book:Conversations With Myself

Source: Conversations With Myself

“It's unbecoming," she agreed. "A perfect word for my new life. Unbecoming. I who have always been unbecoming am becoming un.”

Perfect Becoming New Life Unbecoming

Book:The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz

Source: The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz

“A keen sense of humor helps us to overlook the unbecoming, understand the unconventional, tolerated the unpleasant, overcome the unexpected, and outlast the unbearable.”

Helping Humor Overcoming Adversity Unexpected Sense Of Humor Unbearable Toleration Unconventional Overlooking Good Sense Of Humor Unbecoming Outlasting

Book:Hope for the Troubled Heart: Finding God in the Midst of Pain

Source: Hope for the Troubled Heart: Finding God in the Midst of Pain

“Generally speaking, I think it is unbecoming to act as a national hero, wave hands and so on.”

Thinking Hands Hero Wave Gymnastics Unbecoming

Author:Vitaly Scherbo

“Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown.”

Should Christianity Teacher Serious Clown Unbecoming

Book:What Luther says: an anthology

Source: What Luther says: an anthology

“It is unbecoming for a cardinal to ski badly.”

Sports Cardinals Skis Unbecoming

Author:Pope John Paul II

“Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.”

Consciousness Built Red Revolutionary Protest Squares Offensive Monument Unbecoming Mausoleum

Book:My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography

Source: My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography

“Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.”

Thinking Inspirational Doe Real Truth Unbecoming

Book:The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer

Source: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer

“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.”

Ifs Way Matter Character Might Strength Fulfilled Neglected Unbecoming

Book:Enchiridion

Source: Enchiridion

“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.”

People Ifs States Moving Ready Becoming Fairs Rivers Treats Finished Not Fair Unbecoming

Author:Kathleen Winter

“The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not.”

Self Path Becoming Who You Are Awakening Unbecoming Becoming Who You Are

Author:Albert Schweitzer

“The decisions we make, individually and personally, become the fabric of our lives. That fabric will be beautiful or ugly according to the threads of which it is woven. I wish to say particularly to the young men who are here that you cannot indulge in any unbecoming behavior without injury to the beauty of the fabric of your lives. Immoral acts of any kind will introduce an ugly thread. Dishonesty of any kind will create a blemish. Foul and profane language will rob the pattern of its beauty.”

“Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.”

Life Remember Speak Unbecoming

Author:Socrates

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