4 Francis Bacon Quotes on Deception

Francis Bacon quotes on deception

58. Like strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and all the rest were little ones.

65. Truth is a naked and open daylight, that doth not shew the masks and mummeries and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candlelights.

66. It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.

72. Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.