Unseemly Quotes

33 quotes by 33 authors

We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly… — Adolf Hitler
Never lose your self-respect, nor be too familiar with yourself when you are alone. Let your integrity itself be your own standard of rectitude, and… — Baltasar Gracian
At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic. — Naguib Mahfouz
It remains a mystery to me why some of that [pulp] fiction should be judged inferior to the rafts and rafts of bad social [literary]… — Michael Moorcock
Its avowed purpose is to excite sexual desire, which, I should have thought, is unnecessary in the case of the young, inconvenient in the case… — Malcolm Muggeridge
[God in the Law given to Moses] having forbidden all unlawful marriage, and all unseemly practice, and the union of women with women and men… — Eusebius
Anyway, these books I love, theyâ€™re all books by menâ€”every last one of them. Because if itâ€™s unseemly and possibly dangerous for a man to… — Claire Messud
Perish any man who suspects that these men either did or suffered anything unseemly. — Philip II of Macedon
I wondered why people consider escapism so bad, even the escapism on display right then. At first it might appear unseemly, but in the end… — Saadat Hasan Manto
Somewhere in the dim recesses of the journalistic soul lies the horrible suspicion: This is really a pretty shallow and maybe unseemly way for a… — Andrew Ferguson
You pass by a little child, you pass by, spiteful, with ugly words, with wrathful heart; you may not have noticed the child, but he… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
When great individuals move so marvelously along the straight and narrow path, it is unseemly of us to call attention to the fact that one… — Neal A. Maxwell
There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body. — William Hazlitt
We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a… — Friedrich Schiller
No sane person, I hope, would accuse me of saying that every Distributist must drink beer; especially if he could brew his own cider or… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Somehow in the public sector, if you start in the mailroom and spend your life getting promoted, it's unseemly. — Claire McCaskill
Many people are embarrassed to create in public. It feels unseemly to them, like kissing in plain view... Make a spectacle of yourself. — Eric Maisel
I really love cursing a lot. But as I get older, I realize it's a little unseemly for women of a certain age. — Tina Fey
Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have… — Fran Lebowitz
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. — Moliere

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