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Bait Quotes - Page 2

Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.

Bait the hook well. This fish will bite.

William Shakespeare, Isaac Reed (1813). “The Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.94

Satan, that great angler, hath his sundry baits for sundry tempers of men, which they all catch greedily at, but few perceive the hook till it be too late.

Anne Bradstreet, Adelaide P. Amore (1982). “A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet”

[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, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly 'Euphues: the Anatomy of Wit' and 'Euphues and His England': An Annotated, Modern-Spelling Edition”, p.49, Manchester University Press

A little bait catches a large fish.

John Taylor Wood (2010). “Quotes to Nirvana”, p.2, iUniverse

By one bait or another, Nature allures inhabitants into all her recesses.

Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden and Other Writings”, p.40, Bantam Classics

We're all worm bait waiting to happen. It's what you do while you wait that matters.

Kinky Friedman (1993). “Kinky Friedman: Three Complete Mysteries : Greenwich Killing Time/a Case of Lone Star/When the Cat's Away”, Outlet

The glittering baits of titles and honours are only for children and fools.

Jane Welsh Carlyle (1977). “I Too Am Here: Selections from the Letters of Jane Welsh Carlyle”, p.40, Cambridge University Press