A Quote by John Lyly

[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

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Bait Beauty Deadly Delicate Devouring Hook Panther Poison Pot Silver Sour Sweet

Quote Author

John Lyly
English - Writer
April 3, 1908 - May 25, 1908

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

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

Ambrose Bierce

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 without intelligence is like a hook without bait.

Moliere

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

One series of notes, high and delicate, sang of a sweet moonlight kiss gone sour; another line of music rippled with regret over opportunities forever lost.

Sharon M. Draper

Chili is one of the great peasant foods. It is one of the few contributions America has made to world cuisine. Eaten with corn bread, sweet onion, sour cream, it contains all five of the elements deemed essential by the sages of the Orient: sweet, sour, salty, pungent, and bitter.

Rex Stout

We tried it again and it didn't work out. Sour milk is always sour milk. When something goes bad it stays bad.You don't put sour milk in the refrigerator one day,and take it out the next and expect it to taste sweet.

Eric Jerome Dickey

I am like a tree in a forest. Birds come to the tree, they sit on its branches and eat its fruits. To the birds, the fruit may be sweet or sour or whatever. The birds say sweet or they say sour, but from the tree's point of view, this is just the chattering of birds.