Famous quotes containing the word base:
“There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action.”
—Samuel Richardson (16891761)
“The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.”
—Michel de Montaigne (15331592)
“They must to keep their certainty accuse
All that are different of a base intent;
Pull down established honour; hawk for news
Whatever their loose phantasy invent
And murmur it with bated breath....”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
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