Baseness Quotes

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

One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic. — Robert Musil

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

It must not be thought that gold can be injured by rust, or virtue by baseness. — David R. Fideler

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

It is hardly possible to suspect another without having in one's self the seeds of baseness the party is accused of. — Stanislaw Leszczynski

In the ocean of baseness, the deeper we get, the easier the sinking. — James Russell Lowell

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

No, no, there must be a limit to the baseness even of publishers. — Dorothy L. Sayers

There are two infinities in this world: God up above, and down below, human baseness. — Jules De Goncourt

Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death? — Epictetus

Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness. — Madame De Stael

THEY have the manners to be silent, and you, trusted as you are, the baseness to speak! — Henry James

With base? with baseness? bastardy? base, base? — William Shakespeare

When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently. — Henry Miller

Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another. — Milan Kundera

To think is to take a cunning revenge in which we camouflage our baseness and conceal our lower instincts. — Emile M. Cioran

The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness. — Leonardo Da Vinci

The wish to hear such baseness is degrading. — Dante Alighieri

Anger is certainly a kind of baseness, as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns: children, women, old folks, sick folks. — Francis Bacon