Bacon quotes

When their lordships asked Bacon How many bribes he had taken He had at least the grace To get very red in the face.

- Edmund Clerihew Bentley
  Baseless Biography,'Bacon'.

Do you know how they are going to decide the Shakespeare^Bacon dispute? Theyare going to dig up Shakespeareand dig up Bacon; theyaregoing toget Tree to recite Hamlet to them. And the one who turns in his coffin will be the author of the play.

- Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck) Gilbert
Letter.

As a boy I genuinely believed in the man who never ate bacon because its red and white stripesreminded himof Sheffield Unitedindeed in my blue and white Wednesday heart I applauded and supported his loyalty.

- Roy Sydney George Hattersley, Baron Hattersley
  Goodbye toYorkshire.

   Little subconscious mind, say I each night, bring home the bacon.

- Eugene Gladstone O'Neill
Quoted in Kenneth Tynan Tynan Right and Left (1988). Tynan added the question,'But how much of the bacon can we nowadays stomach?'

If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shined, The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind: Or ravished with the whistling of a name, See Cromwell, damned to everlasting fame!

- Alexander Pope
  An Essay on Man, epistle 4, l.281^4.