Francis Bacon Quotes

Leave the big door open, everyone'll come around.

The Devonian and Cornishman will be found by the visitor to be courteous and hospitable. There is no roughness of manner where unspoiled by periodic influx of strangers; he is kindly, tender-hearted, and somewhat suspicious.

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

Chelsea received me very well.

I have little time for sincerity.

A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.

The gospel of Christ must always be an open door with a welcome sign for all.

My parents are very well-behaved. If anything, if my Mom were here right now, she would hug and kiss every one of you hello, and then she would feed you.

Sincerity is a certain openness of heart. It is to be found in very few, and what we commonly look upon to be so is only a cunningsort of dissimulation, to insinuate ourselves into the confidence of others.

Don't mistake dramatics for a conscience.

No mention of God. They keep Him up their sleeves for as long as they can, vicars do. They know it puts people off.

It is easier to pretend to be what you are not than to hide what you really are; but he that can accomplish both has little to learn in hypocrisy.

Customary use of artifice is the sign of a small mind, and it almost always happens that he who uses it to cover one spot uncovers himself in another.

Perhaps,” murmured his lordship, “I yielded to a compassionate impulse.” “A what?” gasped his best friend. “Oh, did you think I never did so?” said his lordship, the satirical glint in his eyes extremely pronounced. “You wrong me! I do, sometimes—not frequently, of course, but every now and then!

Self is the only oil that makes the chariot-wheels of the hypocrite move in all religious concerns.

Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo.

Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world, insincerity is the most dangerous.

He realized...that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious.

Piety is the tinfoil of pretense.

A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.

It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.

We tend to tell strangers what we think will make us sound good. I myself, to my utter amazement, informed a telephone pollster that I exercised regularly, a bare-faced lie.

Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation.

The skilful class of flatterers praise the discourse of an ignorant friend and the face of a deformed one.