Larry Kramer Quotes

You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar.

As my Sicilian grandfather used to say, you get more flies with honey than with vinegar, right?

When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.'

When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted.

A spoon full of honey gets more flies than a barrel full of vinegar.

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn't mean I don't get frustrated in my life.

You need someone in your life to give you advice without yelling at you.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.

I simply do not think that yelling, swearing, threatening or belittling will get you to the place you want to be faster than kindness, understanding, patience and a little willingness to compromise.

Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered.

You can accomplish by kindness what you cannot by force.

You don’t have to be confrontational of aggressive to get to where you want to be or get people to do what you want to do.

Diplomacy is the art of saying “Nice Doggie!” till you can find a rock.

My name is new in the field, and I suppose I am not the first choice of a very great many. Our policy then is to give no offense to others—leave them in a mood to come to us if they shall be compelled to give up their first love.

Diplomacy takes time.

Lincoln was a supreme politician. He understood politics because he understood human nature.

Wherever you interact with people, you have the opportunity to influence people. This isn't something you necessarily jam down somebody's throat, but it is something you can - gently and over time - begin to cultivate wherever you are.

I think it's important to be subtle, sweet, and powerful.

Kindness is more persuasive than force.

Never, never is it possible to reach someone if you become angry or bitter only love and gentleness can do it. Maybe not this time but maybe the next or the hundredth time.

And a diplomatist is one who lets the other fellow think he's getting his way, while all the time he's having his own. It never does any special harm to let people have their way with their mouths.

When you want to direct someone toward the good, first put him at peace bodily and honor him with words of love. For nothing inclines such a man to shame and induces him to cast of his vice and be changed for the better as do bodily goods and honor, which he sees in you. Then, with love tell him a word or two, and do not be inflamed with anger toward him. Do not let him see any cause of enmity toward you. For love does not know how to lose its temper.