Bait Quotes
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The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream, And greedily devour the treacherous bait.
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More Bait Quotes
Fish not, with this melancholy bait, For this fool-gudgeon, this opinion.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (c. 1596-98), Act I, scene 1.
An Aes Sedai’s gift is bait for a fish.
robert jordan— Matrim Cauthon
It was Schacht, the facade of starched respectability, who in the early days provided the window dressing, the bait for the hesitant, and whose wizardry later made it possible for Hitler to finance the colossal rearmament program and to do it secretly.
robert h. jackson— About Hjalmar Schacht.
Well, with a subject like this, I'm afraid I'll have to reply. Apologies to minix-users who have heard enough about linux anyway. I'd like to be able to just "ignore the bait", but … time for some serious flamefesting!
linus torvalds— Torvalds, Linus (1992-01-29). comp.os.minix: LINUX is obsolete. Retrieved on 2008-12-31.
O cunning enemy, that, to catch a saint, With saints dost bait thy hook!
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure (1603), Act II, scene 2, line 180
Worldly wealth is the devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase.
robert burton— p. 522. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
Her head was bare; But for her native ornament of hair; Which in a simple knot was tied above, Sweet negligence, unheeded bait of love!
— Ovid, Metamorphoses, Meleager and Atalanta, line 68. Dryden's translation.
When if or chance or hunger's powerful sway Directs the roving trout this fatal way, He greedily sucks in the twining bait, And tugs and nibbles the fallacious meat.
john gay— John Gay, Rural Sports, Canto I, line 150.
Steal love's sweet bait from fearful hooks.
— Act I, scene 5. Chorus at end. (Not in Folio).
A cube of cheese no larger than a die May bait the trap to catch a nibbling mie.
ambrose bierce— Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary.
Fish not with this melancholy bait, For this fool-gudgeon, this opinion.
— Gratiano, scene i
bait the hook well: this fish will bite.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (1598-99), Act II, scene 3.
