 | Robert Forby - 1830 - 326 Seiten
...company is expected, by many of our " tidy " housewives, with whom wet and clean are synonymous, " You will catch more flies with a spoonful of honey, than with a gallon of vinegar." — ie Kind language prevails more than sharp reproofs. APPENDIX. " Little fish are sweet." — It... | |
 | William J. O'Neill Daunt - 1848 - 660 Seiten
...You were infinitely more civil to Mr. than I could have been.'' " My dear friend," replied he, " you will catch more flies with a spoonful of honey than with a hogshead of vinegar." Of two other bores I have heard him complain; namely, that of sitting for his... | |
 | William Joseph O'Neil Daunt - 1848 - 330 Seiten
...You were infinitely more civil to Mr. than I could have been." " My dear friend," replied he, " you will catch more flies with a spoonful of honey than with a hogshead of vinegar." Of two other bores I have heard him complain; namely, that of sitting for his... | |
 | William Joseph O'Neill Daunt - 1848 - 358 Seiten
..."You were infinitely more civil to Mr. than I could have been." " My dear friend," replied he, " you will catch more flies with a spoonful of honey than with a hogshead of vinegar." Of two other bores I have heard him complain; namely, that of sitting for his... | |
 | Henrietta Louisa Lear - 1871 - 330 Seiten
...administer it ungraciously, and that judicious silence was far preferable to the truth roughly told. "You will catch more flies with a spoonful of honey, than with a whole barrel of vinegar ! " he used to say ; and " No sauce was ever spoilt by sugar ! " " Human nature... | |
 | Ida Reinsberg-Düringsfeld (baronin von) - 1872 - 562 Seiten
...tea-spoonful of honey is worth a pound of gall. Ein The.elSffel voll Honig tat ein Pfund Galle werth. You will catch more flies with a spoonful of honey, than...mehr Fliegen mit einem Löffel voll Honig fangen, ala mit einer Gallone Essig. da. Man fanger flere Pluer med eu Draabe Henning, end med en Tende Eddike.... | |
 | John Glyde (jr) - 1872 - 428 Seiten
...profits. To give one the seal of the day — ie, to be commonly civil to him, but nothing more. You will catch more flies with a spoonful of honey than with a gallon of vinegar — ie, kind language prevails more than sharp reproof. A lame tongue gets nothing. Go to Bnngay to... | |
 | John Glyde - 1872 - 526 Seiten
...nothing more. Little fish are sweet. — It incaus small gifts are always aeceptable. You will catoh more flies with a spoonful of honey than with a gallon of vinegar — ie, kind language prevails more than sharp reproof. A lame tongue gets nothing. Go to Bungay to... | |
 | H. L. Sidney Lear - 1876 - 398 Seiten
...administer it ungraciously, and that judicious silence was far preferable to the truth roughly told. "You will catch more flies with a spoonful of honey, than with a whole barrel of vinegar ! " he used to say ; and "No sauce was ever spoilt by sugar!" "Human nature... | |
 | John Edward Kempe - 1877 - 404 Seiten
...administer it ungraciously, and that judicious silence was far preferable to the truth roughly told. ' You will catch more flies with a spoonful of honey than with a whole barrel of vinegar ! ' he used to say ; and ' No sauco was ever spoilt by sugar ! ' ' Human nature... | |
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Bishop went so far as to say that it is better to withhold a deserved rebuke than to administer it ungraciously, and that judicious silence was far preferable to the truth roughly told. "You will catch more flies with a spoonful of honey, than with a... 
