Base

Famous quotes containing the word base:

    “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.)

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

    “There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.”
    —Samuel Richardson (1689–1761)