A Quote by Oliver Goldsmith

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

Oliver Goldsmith

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Hope Any Bait Covers Hook

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Oliver Goldsmith
Irish - Novelist
November 10, 1730 - April 4, 1774

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 - a deceitful bait with a deadly hook.

John Lyly

Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.

William Shakespeare

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

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

Ambrose Bierce

Plato divinely calls pleasure the bait of evil, inasmuch as men are caught by it as fish by a hook.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

[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

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

When you bait your hook with your heart, the fish always bite.

John Burroughs

Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.

Moliere

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not to mention, we’re using you for bait. (Syn) Are you that drunk? (Nykyrian) What? I wasn’t supposed to tell her that? (Syn) I’m bait? (Kiara) No, you’re not bait. Ignore the alcoholic whose view of reality is distorted by his brain-damaged hallucinations. (Nykyrian)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

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