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  • Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.

    Life   Remember   Speak  
  • 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.

    Sorry   Men   Good Man  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.501, Рипол Классик
  • Whining is just unbecoming.

    Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2000.
  • Generally speaking, I think it is unbecoming to act as a national hero, wave hands and so on.

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

    Drama   Men   Play  
  • 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 (1993). “Hope for the Troubled Heart: Finding God in the Midst of Pain”, Bantam
  • It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

  • 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.

    Moving   Rivers   People  
  • 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.

    Successful   Unique   Men  
    Nelson Mandela (2011). “Conversations With Myself”, p.28, Pan Macmillan
  • There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ... 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion!

    Laughter   Passion   Men  
    'The Double Dealer' (1694) act 1, sc. 4.
  • 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.

    Mean   Skills   Ill Will  
    Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.3108, Delphi Classics
  • 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 (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.17, Courier Corporation
  • 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.

    Night   Two   President  
    "Senator Pushes Bipartisan Seating Chart For State Of The Union" by Wes Barrett, www.foxnews.com. January 12, 2011.
  • Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.

    Men   Weakness   Behavior  
  • 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.

    Pride   Looks   Proud  
    George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.150, ShandonPress
  • 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.

    Grief   Sorrow   World  
    Jesse Zuba, Jane Austen (2009). “Persuasion - Jane Austen”, p.150, Infobase Publishing
  • 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.

    Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.498, Wordsworth Editions
  • Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.

    Michelle Hodkin (2012). “The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer”, p.315, Simon and Schuster
  • Dishonesty of any kind will create a blemish.

  • 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.

    Drama   Views   Play  
    "Imam Rauf: What's right with Islam" by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, www.cnn.com. September 12, 2010.
  • The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.

    Secret   Emotion   Youth  
    Oscar Wilde, Moira Muldoon (2005). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.92, Simon and Schuster
  • Unbecoming forwardness oftener proceeds from ignorance than impudence.

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

    Leon Trotsky (2012). “My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography”, p.514, Courier Corporation
  • The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not.

  • 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 (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.608, Wordsworth Editions
  • 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.

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

    White   Decision   Use  
    "Fashion Designers Accused Of Racism In Letter" by Julee Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2013.
  • 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 (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”
  • 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.

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

    Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.165, Harper Collins
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