Sugar Coating Quotes

• I've always thought that reviews and knowing how much your fans appreciate or don't like something, that's the sugar coating. I'm trying not to think about those things.

  Chaz Bundick

  Thinking, Knowing, Appreciate

  "Toro Y Moi Talks New Album, Underneath the Pine". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. November 23, 2010.

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• A good story is like a bitter pill, with the sugar coating inside of it.

  O. Henry

  Pills, Stories, Bitter

  O. Henry (2007). “41 Stories: 150th Anniversary Edition”, p.15, Penguin

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• I give you bitter pills, in a sugar coating. The pills are harmless - the poison's in the sugar

  James St. James

  Giving, Pills, Poison

  James St. James (2003). “Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• Truth alone triumphs, not untruth. Through truth alone lies the way to Devayana (the way to the gods). Those who think that a little sugar - coating of untruth helps the spread of truth are mistaken and will find in the long run that a single drop of poison poisons the whole mass ... The man who is pure, and who dares, does all things.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Running, Lying

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3810, Manonmani Publishers

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• We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts. It is the public that is being asked to assume the risks that the insect controllers calculate. The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts.

  Rachel Carson

  Risk, Wish, Needs

  Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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