A Quote by Sir Fulke Greville
Unbecoming forwardness oftener proceeds from ignorance than impudence.
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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.
Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of.
Satiation, like any state of vitality, always contains a degree of impudence, and that impudence emerges first and foremost when the sated man instructs the hungry one.
True wisdom is plenty of experience, observation, and reflection. False wisdom is plenty of ignorance, arrogance, and impudence.
Ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is poverty. Ignorance is devastation. Ignorance is tragedy. And ignorance is illness. It all stems from ignorance.
Confidence, as opposed, to modesty and distinguished from decent assurance, proceeds from self-opinion, and is occasioned by ignorance and flattery.
Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man.
There is nothing more unbecoming a man of quality than to laugh ... 'tis such a vulgar expression of the passion!
Husbands and wives quarrel a lot more than anyone thinks, and it's oftener about little things than big ones.
Think of God oftener than you breathe.
There are no friends more inseparable than pride and hardness of heart, humility and love, falsehood and impudence.
In conversation avoid the extremes of forwardness and reserve.
Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown.
Rashness is oftener the resort of cowardice than of courage.
Between knowledge of what really exists and ignorance of what does not exist lies the domain of opinion. It is more obscure than knowledge, but clearer than ignorance.
No men are oftener wrong than those that can least bear to be so.
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