Base

Famous quotes containing the word base:

“No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.”
—Iris Murdoch (b. 1919)

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

“What I often forget about students, especially undergraduates, is that surface appearances are misleading. Most of them are at base as conventional as Presbyterian deacons.”
—Muriel Beadle (b. 1915)