Base

Famous quotes containing the word base:

    The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    Do not gain basely; base gain is equal to ruin.
    Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.)

    Report of fashions in proud Italy,
    Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation
    Limps after in base imitation.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)