Bait Quotes

And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires.

But fish not with this melancholy bait For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.

Taint no use to sit and whine 'Cause the fish ain't on your line; Bait your hook an' keep on tryin', Keep a-goin'!

Be not with honor's gilded baits beguil'd, Nor think ambition wise, because 'tis brave; For though we like it, as a forward child, 'Tis so unsound, her cradle is the grave.

It's hard to be understood when addressing many people at once. How can you ever know if you're being understood? So, I've just started being intelligently provocative. And people take the bait.

Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth, And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, With windlasses and with assays of bias, By indirections find directions out.

Prudence suspects that happiness is a bait set by risk.

I don't know why it's so hard for me to say those three words. Most guys throw it around like breath, like bait.

It's just one of those deals where I have to keep moving and keep looking. It's a lot about timing and a lot about boat-positioning, and I'm just trying to get fish to react to several different baits.

We are the hunters---and we are also the bait.

So, Diana thought, that was the bait she had to lay out for Jack. Of course. What else? He might lust for Diana, and long for Brianna, but Jack’s true love was made of silicon.

I'm great as bait! All the vampires want to eat me!

Knowledge that is acquired is not like this. Those who have it worry if audiences like it or not. It's a bait for popularity. Disputational knowing wants customers. It has no soul... The only real customer is God. Chew quietly your sweet sugarcane God-Love, and stay playfully childish.

Survival strategy. If you’re not careful, this place will eat you alive, and Kaylee’s like bait for the beasts.

I long for a kind of quiet where I can just drift and dream. I always say getting inspiration is like fishing. If you're quiet and sitting there and you have the right bait, you're going to catch a fish eventually. Ideas are sort of like that. You never know when they're going to hit you.

The fish once caught, new bait will hardly bite.

Darkness uses light as bait on its fishhook!

Girls don’t fight fair. They pull your hair and gauge you and pinch you; then they run off gasping to mommy when you try and defend yourself with a fist. Then you get locked into time out, and for what? No, my friend, the secret is, don’t snap at the bait. Let it dangle. Swim around it. Laugh it off. After a while they’ve given up and try to lure someone else.

Getting offended is the bait of Satan for the believer.

Among all the modernized aspects of the most luxurious of industries, the model, a vestige of voluptuous barbarianism, is like some plunder-laden prey. She is the object of unbridled regard, a living bait, the passive realization of an ideal. No other female occupation contains such potent impulses to moral disintegration as this one, applying as it does the outward signs of riches to a poor and beautiful girl.

I think the bait for doing something really is always the part.

But I'm not to be caught with such poor bait! I'm a big fish, I am.

I'm fishing for men with a certain kind of bait, and the bait that I am offering is not a candy; it's a very specific thing that I'm offering, which is a deep gospel and a deep conversion.

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

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

A little bait catches a large fish.

Pleasure is the bait of sin

BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

I had to work on a Marlin boat, like gutting fish, like as the bait boy.

Our money is bait money, and bait money is not to be used.

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.

Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.

The profound difference that divides the human race is a question of bait - whether to fish with worms or not.

Every man has his price. This is not true. But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

Don't be sucked in by the su-superior, don't swallow the culture bait, don't drink, don't drink and get beerier and beerier, do learn to discriminate.

He that would fish, must venture his bait.

Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth.

For every man there exists bait he cannot resist swallowing.

Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.

Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.

Desire for an idea is like bait. When you're fishing, you have to have patience. You bait your hook, and then you wait. The desire is the bait that pulls those fish in-those ideas.

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

The finer the bait, the shorter the wait!

Bait is made to look SO good you OVERlook the trap. Whether scratched or scarred you ALWAYS get hurt giving in to Temptation.

Deliberate tactical errors and minor losses are the means by which to bait the enemy.

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

Baby's fishing for a dream, fishing near and far. His line a silver moonbeam is, his bait a silver star.

Jay Wexler is my kind of writer--a weird one, and a wry one, and one who isnt afraid to act silly in a sort of bait-and-switch that, to the readers surprise, moves him as much as it makes him laugh. Like all the best comedians, Wexler is clearly nursing a heart that the world broke a long time ago. Ed Tuttle is a book that cant decide what it wants to be when it grows up, but as with most cases of arrested development, theres something very serious going on behind all the antics. Plus, there are pictures.