The best Quotes by Francis Bacon

last words

Last Words

He that traveleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

Traveling Languages

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Essays

Hope

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

Books Science

For knowledge, too, itself is power.
(Col. 'Knowledge is power.')

Meditationes Sacræ

Knowledge Intelligence

Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

Revenge

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Essays

Books

Books are ships which pass through the vast sea of time.

Books Time

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It is strange with how little notice, good, bad, or indifferent, a man may live and die in London.

Charles Dickens

London

If you're curious, London's an amazing place.

David Bailey

London

I've often thought a blind man could find his way through London simply by gauging the changes in innuendo: mild through Trafalgar Square, less veiled towards the river.

Louis Bayard - Mr. Timothy

London

I have nothing against Orlando, though you are, of course, far more likely to get shot or robbed there than in London.

Boris Johnson

London Orlando

I don't miss London much. I find it crowded, vast and difficult to get around. Cabs are incredibly expensive.

John Cleese

London

London. The beating heart of England.

Enola Holmes in Enola Holmes

London

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones - Season 1 Episode 2

Books Mind & Apprehension Intelligence

"One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."

Cassandra Clare in The Infernal Devices

Books

If you have never spent whole afternoons with burning ears and rumpled hair, forgetting the world around you over a book, forgetting cold and hunger-

If you have never read secretly under the bedclothes with a flashlight, because your father or mother or some other well-meaning person has switched off the lamp on the plausible ground that it was time to sleep because you had to get up so early-

If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless-

If such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won't understand what Bastian did next.

Michael Ende in The Neverending Story

Books Reading

I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book.

Joanne K. Rowling

Books Reading

The bare necessities of life will come to you.

Balu in The Jungle Book

Silence

Wisdom is the offspring of suffering and time.

Izaro in Path of Exile

Wisdom

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Courage Light

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens

Gimli in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Loyalty Darkness

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

Voldemort / Tom Riddle in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Power Good & Evil

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little Prince

Children & Childhood Birthday Age

Everything's better with some wine in the belly.

Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones - Season 1 Episode 2

Alcohol Wine

A boy who won't be good might just as well be made of wood.

Blue Fairy in Pinocchio

Wood & Lumber

She warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within.

Beauty and the Beast

Beauty Appearance

Money can't buy life.

Bob Marley - last words - May 11th 1981

Last Words

Traveling is like flirting with life. It's like saying "I would stay and love you, but I have to go".

Traveling

German literacy ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.

Mark Twain

Germany Languages

Hope is like the sun. If you only believe in it when you can see it, you'll never make it through the night.

Leia Organa in Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi

Faith Hope Sun

Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein

Religion Science

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited.

Albert Einstein

Knowledge Imagination Criminal Minds

Smart women love smart men more than smart men love smart women.

Natalie Portman

Intelligence Men & Women Singles & Dating

Justice comes from vengeance but justice only breeds more vengeance.

Pain / Nagato in Naruto

Revenge Justice

How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep, that have taken hold.

Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

Pain Time

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

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