Francis Bacon Quote

The honorablest part of talk is to give the occasion, and again to moderate and pass to somewhat else; for then a man leads the dance.


Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)


The honorablest part of talk is to give the occasion, and again to moderate and pass to somewhat else; for then a man leads the dance.

The honorablest part of talk is to give the occasion, and again to moderate and pass to somewhat else; for then a man leads the dance.

The honorablest part of talk is to give the occasion, and again to moderate and pass to somewhat else; for then a man leads the dance.

The honorablest part of talk is to give the occasion, and again to moderate and pass to somewhat else; for then a man leads the dance.