Francis Bacon

I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.

Francis Bacon

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

Francis Bacon

If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.

Francis Bacon

If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

Francis Bacon

If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.

Francis Bacon

If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.

Francis Bacon

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

Francis Bacon

In charity there is no excess.

Francis Bacon

It is a great happiness when men’s professions and their inclinations accord.

Francis Bacon

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.

Francis Bacon