A Quote by Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Beauty, devoid of grace, is a mere hook without the bait.
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And yet--it is not beauty that inspires the deepest passion. Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Beauty, without expression, tires.
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.
Beauty - a deceitful bait with a deadly hook.
BAIT, n. A preparation that renders the hook more palatable. The best kind is beauty.
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.
[Beauty is] a delicate bait with a deadly hook; a sweet panther with a devouring paunch, a sour poison in a silver pot.
Cheap grace is the grace we bestow on ourselves. Cheap grace is the preaching of forgiveness without requiring repentance, baptism without church discipline, Communion without confession.... Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.
Beauty, alone, may please, not captivate; if lacking grace, 'tis but a hookless bait.
A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility
Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Cheap grace is grace without discipleship, grace without the cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.
Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.
Grace can never properly be said to exist without beauty; for it is only in the elegant proportions of beautiful forms that can be found that harmonious variety of line and motion which is the essence and charm of grace.
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