Misbecoming Quotes

The next good quality belonging to a gentleman, is good breeding [manners]. There are two sorts of ill-breeding : the one a sheepish bashfulness , and the other a mis-becoming negligence and disrespect in our carriage ; both of which are avoided by duly observing this one rule, not to think meanly of ourselves, and not to think meanly of others .

John Locke

More Misbecoming Quotes

I conceive disgust at these impertinent and misbecoming familiarities inscribed upon your ordinary tombstone.

— Charles Lamb; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 232.

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