Top 55 Quotes About Unbecoming
#1. 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
#2. It was not fair, she felt, to treat people as if they were finished beings. Everyone was always becoming and unbecoming.
Kathleen Winter
#3. 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
#4. Generally speaking, I think it is unbecoming to act as a national hero, wave hands and so on.
Vitaly Scherbo
#5. The secret of life is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming. LADY
Oscar Wilde
#6. Sexual repression is conduct unbecoming a Celt." I shrugged. "Better that than having to deal with guilt ferrets.
Kevin Hearne
#7. Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.
Jonathan Swift
#8. 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
#9. Unbecoming or not, I dare say that if a harmonica chases away a suitor, he was no suitor at all in the first place.
Sarah Price
#10. 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
#11. Smoking was a bad habit, yes. But he looked so good doing it." - The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer
Michelle Hodkin
#12. I had just finished carving some boiled beef (remarkably tough by the way) and on resuming my seat I remarked, in a spirit most unbecoming to my cloth, that anyone who murdered Colonel Protheroe would be doing the world at large a service.
Agatha Christie
#13. Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with gods.
Alfred Tennyson
#14. It's unbecoming," she agreed. "A perfect word for my new life. Unbecoming. I who have always been unbecoming am becoming un.
Gregory Maguire
#15. There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ... 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion!
William Congreve
#16. 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
#17. But to be constantly asking 'What is the use of it?' is unbecoming to those of broad vision and unworthy of free men.
Aristotle.
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. Unbecoming forwardness oftener proceeds from ignorance than impudence.
Sir Fulke Greville
#21. For some reason he thinks of Diane in her unbecoming red ski jacket and decides that her life is her life, there is not much use worrying about it. And he thinks of his wife, pretending to laugh at the television. Her quietness.
Alice Munro
#22. 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
#23. He wonders again if the dead need translators; perhaps in a moment, in a simple twist of unbecoming, they know everything they need to know.
Hilary Mantel
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
Aristotle.
#27. We can't do anything but snap at each other," I said. "The masters made sure of that. Anything too extreme would get us expelled for Conduct Unbecoming a Member of the Arcanum. Why do you think I haven't made his life a hell?"
"You're lazy?" Wil suggested.
Patrick Rothfuss
#28. The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
Oscar Wilde
#29. 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
#30. ... 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
#31. No one should ever know where conduct ends and acting begins. Conduct unbecoming. That's what acting is.
Peter O'Toole
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. The path of awakening is not about becoming who you are. Rather it is about unbecoming who you are not.
Albert Schweitzer
#35. Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.
William Penn
#36. The cat's tail was straying into her face again; she was forced to expel air in a most unbecoming fashion to avoid a mouthful of hair.
Meredith Duran
#38. Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.
Socrates
#39. If you were anyone else, I'd tell you it's unbecoming to gloat."
But you'd tell me ... "
That even gloating becomes you. It's a sad thing, an intelligent woman in love.
Emma Bull
#40. 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
#41. Stop believing what you want to believe. It's unbecoming
Max Barry
#42. Recovery is an unbecoming. My healing has been a peeling away of costume after cstume until here I am, still and naked before God, stripped down to my real identity.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#43. Against my protests a mausoleum was built on the Red Square, a monument unbecoming and offensive to the revolutionary consciousness.
Leon Trotsky
#44. . . . though if Fanshawe had not spoken in so unbecoming a way, Laurence would have liked to keep Carver out of it, as he knew the boy had a poor head for heights, which struck him as a grave impediment for an aviator.
Naomi Novik
#49. My brother spent a large portion of the agonizingly slow drive to school banging his forehead on the stearing wheel.
Michelle Hodkin
#51. 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.
Rebecca Scherm
#54. Mara, if you're tired, I can hear it. If you're hurt, I can feel it. And if you lie, I will know it.
Michelle Hodkin
#55. Grounded likely means no phone or computer," Jamie said. "But if I encounter an owl, I'll try to smuggle a message to the outside, okay?
Michelle Hodkin
