Francis Bacon Quotes:
Ocupation: Former Lord Chancellor
Life: January 22, 1561 - April 9, 1626
Birthday: January 22
Death: April 9
Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure
source: Francis Bacon (1852). “The essays or counsels civil and moral and wisdom of the Ancients by Francis (Bacon) Lord Verulam: Edited by B[asil] Montagu”, p.2
topic: Lying, Light, Triumph, Masque, Candle Lights, Candlelight
