Francis Bacon Quotes

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.

Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide.

La ve rite existe; on n'invente que le mensonge. Truth exists; only lies are invented.

Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.

I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the 'fronts' people assume before one another's eyes, and the 'front' a writer puts on the face of reality.

Truth exists; only lies are invented.

I love the truth. Tell the truth and live the truth, because we've seen enough lies and look what it's doing.

People like to say that the conflict is between good and evil. The real conflict is between truth and lies.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

Truth: An ingenious compound of desirability and appearance …

Have you weaned yourself of your off-putting proclivity for not telling the truth/

We cannot afford to have lies in music.

I have a really hard time abiding by falsehoods being left in place.

I am far from sure when I am acting and when I am not or, should I more frankly put it, when I am lying and when I am not. For what is acting but lying and what is good acting but convincing lying?

Is there some truth out there? Yes. Is there a lot of falsehood out there? Absolutely.

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. I can work out a good character much faster than anyone can lie me out of it

Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.

But an Adrian also knew that an Adrian's lies were real: they were lived and felt and acted out as thoroughly as another man's truths - if other men had truths - and he believed it possible that this last lie might see him through to the grave.

The world cannot be successfully fooled for all time.

It's lies. It's all lies. Some of them are just prettier than others, that's all. People see what they think is there.

We obviously need the truth. We're living in a country of lies.