Unbecoming Quotes

• 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

  Humor, Adversity, Overcoming

  Billy Graham (1993). “Hope for the Troubled Heart: Finding God in the Midst of Pain”, Bantam

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

  Socrates

  Life, Remember, Speak

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• It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Witty, Philosophical

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

  Albert Schweitzer

  Self, Becoming Who You Are, Awakening

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• 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

  Moving, Rivers, People

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

  Gregory Maguire

  Perfect, New Life, Becoming

  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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• 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

  Teacher, Serious, Christianity

  Martin Luther (1959). “What Luther says: an anthology”

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• 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

  Sorry, Men, Good Man

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.501, Рипол Классик

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

  Oscar Wilde

  Secret, Emotion, Youth

  Oscar Wilde, Moira Muldoon (2005). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• Whining is just unbecoming.

  Maya Angelou

  Whining

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. December 2000.

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• 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

  Girl, Thinking, Intellectual

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

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• 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

  Running, Home, Winning

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.6938, Delphi Classics

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• Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.

  Michelle Hodkin

  Inspirational, Truth, Real

  Michelle Hodkin (2012). “The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer”, p.315, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Successful, Unique, Men

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Conversations With Myself”, p.28, Pan Macmillan

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• 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

  Thinking, Light, Worship You

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.498, Wordsworth Editions

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• 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.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Beautiful, Men, Indulge In

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

  Vitaly Scherbo

  Hero, Gymnastics, Thinking

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• It is unbecoming for a cardinal to ski badly.

  Pope John Paul II

  Sports, Skis, Cardinals

  Quoted in St. Petersburg Times, 7 Sept. 1987

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• 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.

  Jonathan Swift

  Justice, Judging, Office

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

  Jonathan Swift

  Drama, Men, Play

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• 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

  Pride, Looks, Proud

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.150, ShandonPress

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• 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

  Drama, Views, Play

  "Imam Rauf: What's right with Islam" by Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, www.cnn.com. September 12, 2010.

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• 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

  Strength, Character, Might

  Epictetus (2012). “Enchiridion”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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

  Leon Trotsky

  Squares, Red, Consciousness

  Leon Trotsky (2012). “My Life: An Attempt at an Autobiography”, p.514, Courier Corporation

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• Dishonesty of any kind will create a blemish.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Dishonesty, Kind

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