John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
1953 Franis Baon 1561-1626 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 1953 |
| AUTHOR: | Francis Bacon (1561–1626) |
| QUOTATION: | 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. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Of Cunning. |