Bait Quote by Ambrose Bierce

A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with boys.

— Baden Powell de Aquino

Satan, that great angler, hath his sundry baits for sundry tempers of men, which they all catch greedily at, but few perceive the hook…

— Anne Bradstreet

[Beauty is] a delicate bait with a deadly hook; a sweet panther with a devouring paunch, a sour poison in a silver pot.

— John Lyly

He that will play with Satan's bait, will quickly be taken with Satan's hook.

— Thomas Brooks

Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

A fish, which you can't see, deep down in the water, is a kind of symbol of peace on earth, good will to yourself.…

— Robert Ruark

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty, devoid of grace, is a mere hook without the bait.

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us, as those that are…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

— Oliver Goldsmith

Ideas are floating like fish. Desire for an idea is like a bait on a hook. If you desire an idea, it pulls and…

— David Lynch

Beauty - a deceitful bait with a deadly hook.

— John Lyly