Francis Bacon on Language
Browse 6 quotations attributed to Francis Bacon, catalogued under language, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Francis Bacon, entry #120495: "Sir Amice Pawlet, when he saw too much haste made in any matter, was wont to say. "Stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner."
Attributed to Francis Bacon, entry #237299: "Sir Henry Wotton used to say that critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes."
6 Quotes by Francis Bacon on Language
"Sir Amice Pawlet, when he saw too much haste made in any matter, was wont to say. "Stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner."
"Sir Henry Wotton used to say that critics are like brushers of noblemen's clothes."
"In things that a man would not be seen in himself, it is a point of cunning to borrow the name of the world; as to say, "The world says," or "There is a speech abroad."
"There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat in the pan;" which is, when that which a man says to another, he lays it as if another had said it to him."
"Bacon's Essays, 1601 edition, modernized spelling"
"Essays on the English Renaissance"