Famous quotes containing the word base:
“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)
“Music is of two kinds: one petty, poor, second-rate, never varying, its base the hundred or so phrasings which all musicians understand, a babbling which is more or less pleasant, the life that most composers live.”
—HonorĂ© De Balzac (17991850)
“For those who are base in judgement do not know the good they hold in their hands until they cast it off.”
—Sophocles (497406/5 B.C.)
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