Base Nature Quotes

It takes a certain courage and a certain greatness to be truly base.

Is base in kind, and born to be a slave.

The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.

It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or worse to dwell on it afterwards, to discuss it and wallow in the remembered pleasures of every mouthful. Those whose minds dwell before dinner on the spit, and after on the dishes, are fit only to be scullions.

The malignity that never forgets or forgives is found only in base and ignoble natures, whose aims are selfish, and whose means are indirect, cowardly, and treacherous.

The priests and the scientists are right about one thing: At our heart, at our base, we are no better than animals.

And as it is the most generous souls who have most gratitude, it is those who have most pride, and who are most base and infirm, who most allow themselves to be carried away by anger and hatred.