The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]

Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man. [ William Penn ]

Men of wit. learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays. [ Swift ]

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. [ Landor ]

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 ]

History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality. A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain. There is nothing in the world as unbecoming to a woman as a Nonconformist conscience. [ Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan ]