“I give you bitter pills, in a sugar coating. The pills are harmless - the poison's in the sugar”
“Homeopathy pills are, after all, empty little sugar pills which seem to work, and so they embody [..] how we can be misled into thinking that any intervention is more effective than it really is.”
“Life is not sugar coated.”
“Most people are resistant to ideas, especially new ones. But they are fascinated by character. Extravagance of personality is one way in which the pill can be sugared and the public induced to look at works dealing with ideas.”
“I'm not a baker so I'm not about to sugar coat it for you.”
“She shot me a sugar-coated smile. I matched it calorie for calorie.”