Bait may refer to:
- Bait (luring substance), bait as a luring substance
- Bait and switch, a form of fraud
- Bait car, vehicle rigged by the police to catch auto thieves
- Dog-baiting, using dogs to worry or torment a chained or confined animal
- Fishing bait, bait used for fishing
- Flamebait, the intentional posting of inflammatory content to a public Internet discussion group
- Red-baiting, the act of persecuting people as communist, socialist, or anarchist
- Scam baiting
- Bait (1950 film), a 1950 British film
- Bait (2000 film), a 2000 film starring Jamie Foxx
- Bait (soundtrack), the soundtrack to the 2000 action-comedy film, Bait
- Bait (2012 film), a 2012 film starring Julian McMahon
- Bait Bazi, a verbal game and a genre of Urdu poetry
- "Bait" (CSI: Miami), an episode of the television series, CSI: Miami
- Bait (novel), a 2009 novel by Alex Sánchez
- "Bait" (The Unit), an episode of the television series, The Unit
Famous quotes containing the word bait:
“Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth,
And thus do we of wisdom and of reach,
With windlasses and with assays of bias,
By indirections find directions out.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one’s appetite is not too keen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“O cunning enemy, that to catch a saint,
With saints doth bait thy hook! Most dangerous
Is that temptation that doth goad us on
To sin in loving virtue.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)