Bait Quote by John Lyly Download Open image “Beauty - a deceitful bait with a deadly hook.” — John Lyly ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bait Beauty Deceitful Hook
Beauty, devoid of grace, is a mere hook without the bait. — Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Copy Share Image
Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, 'tis but a hookless bait. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
[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 Copy Share Image
“Beauty was a bait, love was the trap, I was the pray.. fallen for the most beautiful predator..” — ank Copy Share Image
“the pursuit of pure beauty is a trap, a fast track to bitterness and sorrow, that beauty has to be wedded to something more… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in everyday life. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“beauty alters the grain of reality. And I keep thinking too of the more conventional wisdom: namely, that the pursuit of pure beauty is… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Thou art an heyre to fayre lying, that is nothing, if thou be disinherited of learning, for better were it to thee to inherite… — John Lyly Copy Share Image
Far more seemly to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money. — John Lyly Copy Share Image
Maydens, be they never so foolyshe, yet beeing fayre they are commonly fortunate. — John Lyly Copy Share Image
To love women and never enjoy them, is as much to love wine and never taste it. — John Lyly Copy Share Image
If all the earth were paper white / And all the sea were ink / 'Twere not enough for me to write / As… — John Lyly Copy Share Image
So, Diana thought, that was the bait she had to lay out for Jack. Of course. What else? He might lust for Diana, and… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing. To win… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As children, we dug for worms or we used crawdads for bait. We caught catfish, or crappies, a delicous fish. — Anita Bryant Copy Share Image
Stand in despair anywhere old-growth forest has been clear-felled. All life has been replaced by blackened, poisoned desolation. Animals and birds have either fled… — Peter Cundall Copy Share Image
Nile perch are enormous but lethargic fish, easy to catch once they have taken your bait. Some are bright golden yellow, some grey pink… — Kuki Gallmann Copy Share Image
A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with boys. — Baden Powell de Aquino Copy Share Image
The scheme of separate confederacies, which will always multiply the chances of ambition, will be a never failing bait to all such influential characters… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
We are assailed by the temptation of the love of money. If you wish to acquire riches ? they are the bait of the… — Pachomius the Great Copy Share Image
During the run up to the Iraq War, Mike Farrell and I did get on television kind of frequently, but then they saw that… — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
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