Francis Bacon Quotes

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.

Good men do not always have grace and favor, lest they should be puffed up, and grow insolent and proud.

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

I don't like a lot of frills and fusses.

I've always liked simplicity.

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.

Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.

Elegance is inferior to virtue.

Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

Virtue is defined to be mediocrity, of which either extreme is vice.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

I always admired virtue - but I could never imitate it.

The object of the superior man is truth.

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.

Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.

The just man walks in his integrity

They err … who think that virtue consists of words .. good actions are the glory of virtue.

Virtue is the same for women and men alike.

I got simple tastes. Don't go in for all that flashy business.

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

I like people to be saints; but I want them to be first and superlatively honest men.