Base

Famous quotes containing the word base:

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

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

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