Francis Bacon

I'll follow, as they say, for reward. He that rewards me, God reward him. If I do grow great, I'll grow less;…

— Francis Bacon

I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy…

— Francis Bacon

Consistency is the foundation of virtue.

— Francis Bacon

Time is the author of authors.

— Francis Bacon

Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the…

— Francis Bacon

... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.

— Francis Bacon

I want to make portraits and images. I don't know how. Out of despair, I just use paint anyway. Suddenly the things…

— Francis Bacon

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

— Francis Bacon

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

— Francis Bacon

If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform…

— Francis Bacon

Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.

— Francis Bacon

I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being.

— Francis Bacon

The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and…

— Francis Bacon

There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth.

— Francis Bacon

For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken, nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed.

— Francis Bacon

A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but…

— Francis Bacon

I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and…

— Francis Bacon

A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war.

— Francis Bacon

But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.

— Francis Bacon

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.

— Francis Bacon

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

— Francis Bacon

If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores,…

— Francis Bacon

Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.

— Francis Bacon

The natures and dispositions of men are, not without truth, distinguished from the predominance of the planets.

— Francis Bacon

There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

— Francis Bacon