Baseness Quotes
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There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.
— Theodore Roosevelt
When the scale of sensuality bears down that of reason, the baseness of our nature conducts us to most preposterous conclusions.
— Roger Chamberlain
It (the heart) is supposed in popular language, to be the seat sometimes, of courage, sometimes of affection, sometimes of honesty, or baseness.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Some kinds of baseness are nobly undergone.
— William Shakespeare
In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness.
— Francis Bacon
There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.
— Edmond De Goncourt
With base? with baseness? bastardy? base, base?
— William Shakespeare
The wish to hear such baseness is degrading.
— Dante Alighieri
The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.
— Leonardo Da Vinci
To think is to take a cunning revenge in which we camouflage our baseness and conceal our lower instincts.
— Emile M. Cioran
Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.
— Milan Kundera
THEY have the manners to be silent, and you, trusted as you are, the baseness to speak!
— Henry James
Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness.
— Madame De Stael
There are two infinities in this world: God up above, and down below, human baseness.
— Jules De Goncourt
No, no, there must be a limit to the baseness even of publishers.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
If you expect the wise man to be as angry as the baseness of crimes requires, then he must not only be angry but go insane.
— Seneca The Younger
In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking.
— James Russell Lowell
It is hardly possible to suspect another without having in one's self the seeds of baseness the party is accused of.
— Stanislaw Leszczynski
Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.
— Napoleon Bonaparte