Unbecoming Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  White, Decision, Use

  "Fashion Designers Accused Of Racism In Letter" by Julee Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2013.

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• 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.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Mean, Skills, Ill Will

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Cicero (Illustrated)”, p.3108, Delphi Classics

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• Unbecoming forwardness oftener proceeds from ignorance than impudence.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Ignorance, Manners, Impudence

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

  William Congreve

  Laughter, Passion, Men

  'The Double Dealer' (1694) act 1, sc. 4.

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• 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

  War, Thinking, Age

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

  William Penn

  Men, Weakness, Behavior

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• 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

  Night, Two, President

  "Senator Pushes Bipartisan Seating Chart For State Of The Union" by Wes Barrett, www.foxnews.com. January 12, 2011.

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• 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.

  Jane Austen

  Grief, Sorrow, World

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

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• 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

  Philosophy, Religion, Inheritance

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.180

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