A Quote by Ambrose Bierce

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

Ambrose Bierce

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Ambrose Bierce
American - Journalist
June 24, 1842 - 1914

Beauty - a deceitful bait with a deadly hook.

John Lyly

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

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

David Lynch

[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

Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.

Moliere

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition.

Epictetus

Ideas are floating like fish. Desire for an idea is like a bait on a hook. If you desire an idea, it pulls and it makes a kind of a bait. Ideas will come swimming up. And you don't know them until they enter the conscious mind. And then bingo! There it is! You know it instantly. And then more come in. If you go fishing for ideas, a lot of ideas will just pop in. And one of them will make you fall in love.

David Lynch

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Socrates

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

Oliver Goldsmith

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. Fishing gives a man ... some time to collect his thoughts and reaarange them kind of neatly, in an orderly fashion. Once the bait is on the hook and the boat is anchored, there's nothing to interfere with thinking except an occasional bite

Robert Ruark

Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.

William Shakespeare

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Thomas Jefferson

The preparation for building a series of thrillers based on a single character is kind of like the preparation for becoming a parent: The best part is the idea - wink, wink.