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)

    “Things base and vile, holding no quantity,
    Love can transpose to form and dignity.
    Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
    And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “For those who are base in judgement do not know the good they hold in their hands until they cast it off.”
    —Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)