BASENESS

Related Subjects: Character, Coward and Cowardice, Evil, Servility, Villainy, Wickedness

1. Lewd fellows of the baser sort.—Bible, Acts 17:5

2. Blindness we may forgive, but baseness we will smite.—WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY, An Ode in Time of Hesitation
   

3. I have lived in such dishonour that the gods
   Detest my baseness.—SHAKESPEARE, Antony and Cleopatra
   

4. The time of life is short;
   To spend that shortness basely were too long.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry IV
   

5. Small things make base men proud.—SHAKESPEARE, Henry VI