Accused Quote by Stanisław I Leszczyński

Our party has been accused of fooling the public by calling tax increases 'revenue enhancement'. Not so. No one was fooled

— Dan Quayle

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

— Emile M. Cioran

Advertizing, television and film all wield mighty powers to visually seduce us, while much fine art leaves us indifferent, confused or, at worst, repulsed.…

— John Walford

When the scale of sensuality bears down that of reason, the baseness of our nature conducts us to most preposterous conclusions.

— Roger Chamberlain

There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice, none at all. [...] It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty,…

— H. G. Wells

The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness.

— Leonardo da Vinci

How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by men, and…

— Blaise Pascal

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much How to forget that learning; but, sir,…

— William Shakespeare

No, no, there must be a limit to the baseness even of publishers.

— Dorothy L. Sayers